Schedule reliability of global shipping lines in 2024 within 50%-55% range

Denmark-based research and analysis specialist Sea‑Intelligence reported that global schedule reliability dropped by -0.9 percentage points in December. However, the schedule reliability throughout 2024 has largely remained within the 50%-55% range.

Sea-Intelligence released its 161 issue of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including December 2024.

“In December 2024, global schedule reliability dropped by -0.9 percentage points M/M to 53.8%,” said Alan Murphy, chief executive officer of Sea-Intelligence.

According to the report, schedule reliability throughout 2024 has largely remained within the 50%-55% range.

On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was -3.0 percentage points lower in December 2024. The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals decreased by -0.23 days M/M to 5.28 days, which is the lowest that the delay figure has been since July 2024. On a Y/Y level, the December 2024 figure was -0.12 days lower.

Maersk has also climbed in the first place as the most reliable top-13 carrier in the report in December 2024 with schedule reliability of 60.4%, in comparison with the other carriers MSC, ZIM, CMA CGM, Evergreen, HMM, PIL,