- Top-ranked carriers rarely hold the lead across all trade lanes but maintain high overall reliability through consistent top-5 rankings.
- Consistency, rather than frequent first-place finishes, plays a critical role in overall reliability.
- A composite score ranks carriers based on their position in trade lanes, with Maersk leading and ONE at the bottom for Jan-Sep 2024.
Top global carriers are benchmarked monthly across 34 trade lanes, assessing their schedule reliability. Since 2019, the most reliable carrier in each month was rarely the top performer across more than 30% of trade lanes, showing that high overall reliability doesn’t require top performance in every trade lane, reports Sea – Intelligence.
Consistency is Key
Carriers may not be the most reliable across all lanes, but a high overall score stems from consistently ranking within the top 5 in 50%-80% of lanes.
While monthly reliability is straightforward, evaluating long-term performance is complex. Carriers consistently near the top are favored over those with sporadic high rankings.
Comparative Performance Over Time
Evaluating long-term performance involves comparing a carrier that ranks high in half of the trade lanes but poorly in others with one that consistently ranks near the top without ever being first.
To measure performance, each carrier’s ranking was scored from 1.0 for 1st place to 0.1 for 10th on each trade lane, totaling scores to compare over time.
Leading Carriers: Jan-Sep 2024
Maersk achieved the highest composite score, ranking 1st in 16% of trade lanes and in the top 3 44% of the time.
ZIM closely followed Maersk, ranking 1st in 17% of lanes and in the top-3 39% of the time, while CMA CGM, MSC, and PIL completed the top-5.
ONE, ranked 1st in only 2% of trade lanes and within the top-3 30% of the time, received the lowest composite score.
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Source: Sea – Intelligence
