Shipping schedule reliability dipped in January, reversing the uptrend seen at the end of 2022.

Sea Intelligence said while schedule reliability continued to increase for much of 2022, in January 2023, there has been a month-on-month decline of -3.8 percentage points to 52.6%.

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Source: Sea-Intelligence

"Despite this decrease, schedule reliability in January 2023 was considerably higher than in the previous two years, with the year-on-year increase at 22.2 percentage points," the report said.

In December, shipping schedule reliability increased by a marginal 0.1 percentage points to 56.6%.

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Source: Sea-Intelligence

Average delay improves

For January, Sea-Intelligence noted that the average delay for late vessel arrivals, on the other hand, continued to improve, as it has for much for 2022, with the latest figure at 5.26 days, a month-on-month drop of -0.24 days.

Maersk was the most reliable top-14 carrier in January 2023 with 58.3%, followed by MSC with 57.7%.

It added that there were three more carriers with schedule reliability of over 50%, while the remaining carriers all had schedule reliability of 40%-50%.

For the month, the report said ZIM was the least reliable carrier in January 2023, with a schedule reliability of 41.0%.

Source: Sea-Intelligence

"All top-14 carriers recorded a month-on-month decline in schedule reliability in January 2023, with Hapag-Lloyd recording the smallest decline of a marginal -0.4 percentage points," Sea-Intelligence said.

It added that Wan Hai was the only carrier with a double-digit decline of -15.4 percentage points.

"All carriers except for Hamburg Süd recorded double-digit year-on-year improvements in schedule reliability in January 2023," Sea-Intelligence further said.