Oslo - Global container vessel schedule reliability dropped to 56.4% in July 2026, a decline of ‑6.1 percentage points (pp) M/M. This is the sharpest single‑month decline since January 2021. Concurrently, the average delay for late vessel arrivals climbed to 6.06 days, an increase of 0.59 days M/M. This pronounced drop was driven primarily by congestion across major Asian ports. All 14 of the region's busiest ports experienced a decrease in on‑time vessel arrivals.

As shown in Figure 1, thes 14 major Asian ports saw severe schedule reliability degradation . . .