APL was the world’s most reliable carrier in May 2015 with an on-time performance of 85.5%, according to the latest Global Liner Performance Report by SeaIntel Maritime Analysis.

“APL has been working hard to improve the reliability of our product,” said Nathaniel Seeds, chief operations officer of APL. “Our performance improvement is a gratifying result for APL’s dedicated team of onshore and seafaring professionals who work tirelessly each day to earn the trust of our customers.”

According to the SeaIntel report, there was an overall improvement in the schedule reliability of the top 20 container lines from April 2015 to May 2015, having risen to 78.3% from 72.8%.

Some of APL’s key trade lanes have shown a marked rise in in schedule reliability over the first five months of the year.

In particular, the head haul Asia – North Europe lane posted an on-time performance of 94% in May, compared to 62% in January, and the head haul Asia – US West Coast lane went up to 65% in May, compared to just 24% in January, when performance was severely affected by a labour dispute.