Drewry: Container carriers' reliability on the rise

With an average schedule reliability of 85 percent in April, Maersk Line was by far the industry's most reliable carrier on the key trades between Asia and Europe.

BY OLE ANDERSEN

Published: 20.05.15 at 11:21

Container carriers' reliability on the three key trades between Asia and Europe is rising after the massive congestion issues in ports on the US West Coast have worn off, just as carriers seem to have, at this point, finished implementing their partnerships and services in the new alliances.

For the industry overall, carriers' schedule reliability increased to 67.6 percent, according to Drewry, a 4.1 percentage point improvement compared to March.

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Container reliability hit new low at the end of 2021

Foto: Christina Sabrowsky/AP/Ritzau Scanpix

Schedule reliability in the container industry set a new negative record in December 2021 with one route in particular hit hard with an on-time arrival rate of only 10 percent, show figures from Sea-Intelligence. Problems in supply chains are still ”a huge burden,” says Hapag-Lloyd.