COPENHAGEN: The rapid increase in schedule reliability that we have been seeing in the second half of the year has abated somewhat, with the M/M increase in December of a marginal 0.1 percentage points to 56.6%.
On a Y/Y level, however, schedule reliability was up by
24.8 percentage points. The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals had been dropping consistently since the turn of the year. In December 2022 however, average delay increased slightly, by 0.34 days M/M and reached 5.43 days.
MSC was the most reliable top-14 carrier in December with 63.3%, followed by Maersk with 60.1%. The next
10 carriers recorded schedule reliability between 50%-60%, with only Yang Ming and ZIM recording schedule reliability of under 50%, at 47.7% and 47.2%, respectively.
10 of the top-14 carriers recorded a M/M improvement in schedule reliability in December 2022, while MSC recorded no change, and 3 carriers recorded a decline. Yang Ming recorded the largest increase of 5.3 percentage points, while ZIM recorded the largest M/M decline of
-6.1 percentage points. All carriers recorded double-digit Y/Y improvements though.
