In February 2025, global schedule reliability rose to 54.9%, up 3.6 percentage points month-over-month and 1.8 points year-over-year. Maersk led the top 13 carriers with a reliability rate of 60.2%, followed by MSC at 57.4%, and Hapag-Lloyd at 57.3%.

Two new carrier alliances, Gemini Cooperation and Premier Alliance, were launched in February, while the 2M and THE Alliance are being phased out. The Ocean Alliance remains unchanged. Although MSC is not in an alliance, its extensive East-West network positions it as a significant player in the alliance context.

Initial data from February, based on origin port calls, indicates that Gemini Cooperation leads with a reliability rate of 94.0%, followed by MSC at 79.6%, and Premier Alliance at 60.4%. The Ocean Alliance recorded an on-time performance at 54.1%, while THE Alliance and 2M trailed at 45.3% and 44.2% respectively.

“It is important to stress that the new alliances are just in the beginning phase of their network roll-out, and they will only be fully rolled out in July 2025, and only then will it be possible to truly evaluate their performance. It is nevertheless an interesting data point, to see how they have performed on the initial origin arrivals,” commented Alan Murphy, CEO of Sea-Intelligence.

Source: Sea-Intelligence