Schedule Reliability Reaches 46.2% in August

Global schedule reliability recorded the largest month-on-month (M/M) improvement in August of 5.8 percentage points, reaching 46.2%.

The average delay for late vessels improved sharply in August, dropping by -0.57 days M/M to 5.86 days. It marked the first time average delay dropped below the six-day mark since April 2021.

Maersk was the most reliable carrier in August with schedule reliability at 53%, followed by CMA CGM with 46%. Six carriers recorded schedule reliability of over 40%, 5 recorded schedule reliability of 30%-40%, while Yang Ming recorded the lowest schedule reliability of 29.8%.

In August 2022, many of the carriers were very close to each other in terms of schedule reliability. Ten carriers were within seven percentage points of each other. 12 of the top-14 carriers recorded a M/M improvement, while all 14 recorded a year-on-year improvement. 11 of the carriers recorded double-digit improvements, and 3 recorded improvements of over 20 percentage points. 

Source: Sea-Intelligence