Sea-Intelligence’s year-end report covering 34 trade routes, showed containership schedule reliability remained relatively stable in 2024 amid disruptions brought on by the Red Sea crisis which forced vessel diversions, longer transits and reduced capacity.
“Throughout 2024, schedule reliability has largely remained within the 50%-55% range. On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was –3.0 percentage points lower in December 2024,” said Sea-Intelligence’s CEO, Alan Murphy.
In December, on-time performance was at 53.8%, down -0.9 percentage points from November. The average delay for LATE vessels dropped to 5.28 days. Murphy said this was the lowest that the delay figure has been since July 2024.
Maersk was the most reliable among the top-13 carriers, with an on-time performance at 60.4%. Six carriers were in the 50%-60% range, while the rest stayed between 47%-50%. Wan Hai was the least reliable carrier, with on-time performance at 47.9%. The reliability gap between the best and worst carriers shrank to under 13 points. Only four carriers improved month-over-month. ZIM had the biggest gain at 6 percentage points. Year-over-year, just six carriers improved, while Evergreen had the steepest decline.
Source: Sea-Intelligence
