Container lines’ schedule reliability dips slightly at start of 2023, states a Container News source.
Reports from Sea-Intelligence
Sea-Intelligence reported that while schedule reliability continued to increase for much of 2022, in January 2023 there has been a month-to-month decline of 3.8%, reaching to 52.6%.
Credit: Sea-Intelligence.com, GLP Report, issue 138
Schedule reliability in January 2023
Despite this decrease, schedule reliability in January 2023 was considerably higher than in the previous two years, with the year on year increase of 22.2%.
According to Sea-Intelligence, the average delay for late vessel arrivals on the other hand continued to improve, as it has for much of 2022, with the latest figure at 5.26 days, a month-to-month drop of 0.24 days.
Maersk was the most reliable top-14 carrier
Maersk was the most reliable top-14 carrier in January 2023 with 58.3%, followed by MSC with 57.7%. There were three more carriers with schedule reliability of over 50%, while the remaining box lines had schedule reliability of 40%-50%.
In addition, ZIM was the least reliable carrier in January 2023 with a schedule reliability of 41%. All top-14 carriers recorded a month-to-month decline in schedule reliability in January 2023, with Hapag-Lloyd recording the smallest fall of a marginal 0.4%.
Finally, Wan Hai was the only carrier with a double-digit decline of 15.4%. All carriers except for Hamburg Süd recorded double-digit year-on-year improvements in schedule reliability in January 2023.
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Source: Container News
