Global schedule reliability improved in June bucking the declining trend since the start of the year, according to a new report by Sea-Intelligence.

In June 2022, schedule reliability increased by 3.6 percentage points to 40.0% — also an improvement from the 36.4% seen in May, which was up 2.1 percentage points from April but was still down year/year by -2.3 percentage points.

"Global schedule reliability seems to have broken the trend seen since the start of this year, with schedule reliability increasing by 3.6 percentage points in June 2022 to 40.0%," Sea-Intelligence said. "This also marked the first time since the start of the pandemic that schedule reliability improved Y/Y."

Average delay for vessel arrivals dropping 

Sea-Intel added that the average delay for vessel arrivals has been "dropping sharply" so far this year but remained unchanged M/M at 6.24 days in June.

The delay figure is now firmly below the 7-day mark, and an improvement over the respective 2021 figure, it added.

With schedule reliability of 49.5%, Sea-Intel said in its latest report that Maersk was the most reliable carrier in June 2022, followed by Hamburg Süd with 41.4%.

During the period, it said there were 10 carriers with schedule reliability of 30%-40% and only two with schedule reliability of 20%-30%.

"In June 2022, once again, a lot of the carriers were very close to each other in terms of schedule reliability, with 10 carriers within 7 percentage points of each other," Sea-Intelligence added.

It said Wan Hai had the lowest schedule reliability in June at 24.8%.

On a year-on-year level, the report said nine of the top-14 carriers recorded an improvement in schedule reliability in June, with Evergreen recording the only double-digit improvement of 16.2 percentage points.