Schedule reliability of container shipping lines drops to record low in January 2022

Schedule reliability of container shipping lines was record low in January 2022

Sea-Intelligence has published the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report No. 126, with schedule reliability figures through the end of January 2022. Sea-Intelligence has been based on the schedule reliability data on 34 different commercial shipping routes for more than 60 global container carriers.

According to this report by Sea-Intelligence, the reliability of the schedule in January 2022 again decreased by 0.9 percentage points from the previous month to 30.9%. This is the lowest ever global schedule confidence level since Sea-Intelligence began measuring in 2011.

On a year-over-year level, Sea-Intelligence reported that: "schedule reliability was down -3.8 percentage points. Despite the low schedule reliability since January 2021, there hasn’t been much fluctuation, with the global scores largely between 30%-40%. The average delay for late vessel arrivals decreased slightly to 7.38 days, the sixth consecutive month with the delay figure above 7 days".

Schedule reliability of container shipping lines in January 2022 (Source: Sea-Intelligence)

According to the the report, Sea-Intelligence pointed out that: "Maersk was once again the most reliable top-14 carrier in January 2022, with schedule reliability of 46.9%". Next is Hamburg Süd with 42.8%. MSC and HMM have schedule reliability between 30%-40% and there are six other carriers with schedule reliability between 20%-30%.

The remaining four container lines have schedule reliability below 20%, with Evergreen being recorded with the lowest schedule reliability in January 2022, at only 15.0%, according to Sea-Intelligence. .

During January 2022, ten carriers recorded an improvement in month-to-month schedule reliability, and five recorded an improvement in year-over-year schedule reliability. However, three shipping lines have recorded double-digit annual schedule reliability declines, according to Sea-Intelligence.

Read more:

• Global container schedule reliability report 2021
• Schedule reliability below 40% in 2021, Maersk stays on top
• No correlation found between schedule reliability and freight rates - Sea-Intelligence
• The schedule reliability of the world's shipping vessels is quite poor - Sea-Intelligence

Source: Phaata.com (According to Sea-Intelligence)

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