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In March, global industry schedule reliability increased by 3.9 percentage points month on month to 62.2%, the joint-highest figure in 2026, according to Sea-Intelligence. On a year-on-year level, schedule reliability was higher by 5.2 percentage points.
With improving schedule reliability, the average delay for late vessel arrivals also improved in March, decreasing by 0.14 days from the previous month to 5.48 days. Despite this, from a year earlier, the March 2026 figure was 0.36 days longer.
Hapag-Lloyd was the most reliable carrier among the top 13 in March with schedule a reliability of 72.3%, followed by Maersk with 70.8%. Eight carriers had reliability in the 60-70% range, while two were in the 50-60% range, and Wan Hai was the least reliable carrier with a schedule reliability of 46.6%. Only two carriers recorded a month-on-month decline, while 11 of the 13 recorded a year-on-year improvement.
Traditionally, alliance scores are based on just arrivals in destination regions, but as that metric was not available for the new alliances that launched in February 2025, Sea-Intelligence introduced a new measure, based on all arrivals, including origin region calls on the east-west trades.
