December 30, 2025
Container carriers schedule reliability improves to 64.1% in November
Sea-Intelligence has published issue 172 of the Global Liner Performance report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including November 2025.
In November 2025, global industry schedule reliability improved M/M by 2.8 percentage points to 64.1%, bringing it back in line with the levels seen between May and September. This is also the second-highest recorded figure for November. On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was up 9.5 percentage points.
The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals decreased M/M by -0.16 days to 4.88 days, making it the second-lowest figure for this month. On a Y/Y level, the November 2025 figure was -0.54 days lower.
Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in November 2025 with schedule reliability of 78.1%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd with 77.1%. The next three carriers were in the 60-70% range, while the remaining eight carriers were in the 50-60% range.
Source: Sea-Intelligence