According to Sea-Intelligence’s Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, in March, global schedule reliability improved by 3 percentage points M/M to 57.5%, the highest level recorded since November 2023.
On a Y/Y level, the March score was also higher by 3 percentage points.
Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in March with schedule reliability of 66.9%, followed by its Gemini partner Hapag-Lloyd at 64.3% and MSC at 61.9%.
In March, the new alliance services saw the first vessel arrivals on a trade lane basis, while in February, they had only seen arrivals in the origin regions of the East/West trades.
According to Sea-Intelligence’s methodology, alliance scores are based on arrivals in destination regions, but as that metric was not available for the new alliances in February, the Danish analysts introduced a new measure for the new alliances, based on all arrivals, including the origin region calls on alliance services.
In the following graph, Sea-Intelligence presents both measures, “all arrivals” which is comparable to the February measure and includes both origin and destination calls, and “trade arrivals”, which is comparable to the “old” alliances and only includes destination calls.
These two measures will converge when the new alliances are fully rolled out, noted the data analysis firm.
In February/March, Gemini recorded 90.3% schedule reliability across ALL arrivals, and 85.7% across TRADE arrivals, followed by MSC at 75.8% for ALL arrivals and 74.4% for TRADE arrivals, while Premier Alliance recorded 53.2% for ALL arrivals and 51.2% across TRADE Arrivals.
For the “old” alliances, ALL arrivals are the same as TRADE arrivals, and the continuing Ocean Alliance scored 54.9%, while ending 2M and THE alliances scored 43.1% and 46.5%, respectively.
“It is important to stress that the new alliances will only be fully rolled out in July 2025, and only then will it be possible to truly evaluate their performance,” pointed out Alan Murphy, CEO of Sea-Intelligence.
