Schedule reliability figures published by Sea-Intelligence up to and including October 2023 Sea-Intelligence has Maersk topping the chart eith 71.1% schedule reliability in October 2023 making it the most reliable top-13 carrier.
Global schedule reliability remained unchanged M/M in October 2023 at 64.4%. Barring the increase in May, schedule reliability has been ranging within 2 percentage points since March 2023. On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was 12.6 percentage points higher.
The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals continues to creep up, increasing by 0.33 days M/M to 4.90 days. With the M/M decrease, the average delay for LATE vessel arrivals is now on a similar trajectory to what we saw during the same time-period in 2020.
With 71.1% schedule reliability in October 2023, Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier, followed by MSC with 68.5%. Including MSC, 6 carriers had schedule reliability of 60%-70%, while the remaining 6 carriers had schedule reliability of 50%-60%.
HMM was the least reliable carrier with schedule reliability of 53.7%. 6 of the top-13 carriers recorded a M/M increase in October 2023, with HMM recording the largest increase of 7.7 percentage points.
11 of the 13 carriers recorded double-digit Y/Y improvements, with Wan Hai recording the largest improvement of 22.8 percentage points.
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