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In July, schedule reliability declined month on month for the first time since January, dropping by 2.2 percentage points to 65.2%, according to a recent Global Liner Performance (GLP) released by Sea-Intelligence, which covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and 60-plus carriers. On a year-on-year scale, however, it was up by 13 percentage points. The average vessel arrival delay deteriorated, increasing by 0.14 days to 4.68 days.
Maersk was the most reliable carrier among the top 13 with a schedule reliability rate of 80.6%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd with 74%. The next six carriers were in the 60%-70% range, and the remaining carriers were in the 50%-60% range. HMM had the lowest reliability rate of 50.7%.
Traditionally, alliance scores are just based on arrivals in destination regions, but as that metric was not available for the new alliances in February, Sea-Intelligence has introduced a new measure, based on all arrivals, including the origin region calls on the east-west trades.
In June and July, the Gemini Cooperation, which consists of Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd, recorded 92% in schedule reliability across all arrivals and 89.6% across trade arrivals, followed by Mediterranean Shipping Co. (MSC) with 76.5% for all arrivals and 76.2% for trade arrivals, while the Premier Alliance, a partnership among Ocean Network Express (ONE), HMM and Yang Ming Marine Transport, recorded 54.6% for all arrivals and 54.8% for trade Arrivals. For old alliances, all arrivals are equal to trade arrivals, and the Ocean Alliance, which is made up of CMA CGM, COSCO Shipping Lines, Evergreen Marine and Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), scored 69.4%.
