October 29, 2025
Container carriers schedule reliability levels around the 65% mark
Sea-Intelligence has published issue 170 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including September 2025.
In September 2025, global industry schedule reliability recorded a marginal M/M improvement of 0.1 percentage points to 65.2%, the second-highest figure for the month (across 2019-2025). On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability in September 2025 was up 14.7 percentage points. The average delay for late vessel arrivals was unchanged M/M at 4.88 days.
Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier with schedule reliability of 77.0%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd with 73.6%. There were five carriers each in the 60-70% and 50-60% range.
Source: Sea-Intelligence