Sea-Intelligence has reported that while schedule reliability continued to increase for the majority of 2022, there has been a month-to-month 3.8 per cent decline in January 2023, reaching to 52.6 per cent.
All top 14 carriers recorded a month-to-month decline in schedule reliability in January 2023, with Hapag-Lloyd recording the smallest decline of a marginal 0.4 per cent.
ZIM was the least reliable carrier in January 2023 with schedule reliability of 41 per cent.
Wan Hai was the only carrier with a double digit decline of 15.4 per cent.
Despite this decrease, schedule reliability in January 2023 was considerably higher than in the previous two years, with a year-on-year increase of 22.2 per cent from 2022.
In January 2023, all carriers except for Hamburg Süd recorded double-digit year-on-year improvements in schedule reliability.
The average delay for late vessel arrivals continued to improve as it did in 2022, with the latest figure at 5.26 days, a month-to-month decline of 0.24 days.
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In January 2023, Maersk was the most reliable out of all top 14 carriers with a carrier score of 58.3 per cent, followed by MSC with 57.7 per cent.
There were three more carriers with schedule reliability of over 50 per cent, including CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg Süd.
The remaining carriers all recorded schedule reliability of between 40 per cent and 50 per cent.
