January 28, 2026
Container carriers schedule reliability dropped a little in December
Sea-Intelligence published issue 173 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including December 2025.
In December 2025, global industry schedule reliability dropped by -1.2 percentage points M/M to 62.8%, the second-lowest monthly figure since May. On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was up 9.0 percentage points.
The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals also deteriorated, increasing M/M by 0.04 days to 5.04 days. This is the second-highest figure since April. On a Y/Y level, the December 2025 figure was -0.29 days lower.
Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in December 2025 with schedule reliability of 76.7%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd with 75.2%. MSC and HMM were in the 60-70% range, while eight of the remaining nine carriers were in the 50-60% range.
Source: Sea-Intelligence