Carrier reliability better than expected
In its latest global liner performance (GLP) report, the Copenhagen (Denmark)-based maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence lists the reliability figures of worldwide shipping for the month of April.
According to this analysis, global schedule reliability declined marginally by 0.4 percentage points in April 2020 to 69.8% compared to the same period in 2019, which was the second-lowest April figure in the 2012-2020 period. Compared to April 2019, schedule reliability was down 6.7 percentage points.
CEO Alan Murphy commented: "As the blank sailings impact of coronavirus only went truly pandemic in April, we were expecting a significant decline in schedule reliability from March to April, however, this has not (yet) happened."
Hamburg Süd was the most reliable top-15 carrier in April 2020 with schedule reliability of 80.3%, followed by Wan Hai with 76.2%. All three THE Alliance carriers were in the bottom three, with Yang Ming recording the lowest April 2020 schedule reliability of 65.1%. (mw)