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Sea-Intelligence has published latest data on global liner performance, revealing a continued upward trend in schedule reliability for the container shipping industry. The Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, covering data through June 2025, shows that schedule reliability improved by 1.6 percentage points month-on-month (M/M), reaching 67.4%, the highest level recorded since November 2023.

This marks the fifth consecutive month of M/M improvement and a significant year-on-year (Y/Y) increase of 12.8 percentage points. Among the top-13 carriers, Maersk led the field in June 2025 with a schedule reliability of 81.0%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd at 76.5%. The next group of carriers scored in the 60%-70% range, while the lowest performers, including Yang Ming, came in at 55.4%.

Sea-Intelligence also provided an update on alliance-level performance. Since February, the industry has seen the introduction of new alliance structures, prompting the use of two comparative measures: “All arrivals,” which includes both origin and destination port calls, and “Trade arrivals,” which focuses solely on destination region calls.

According to both metrics, the Gemini Cooperation leads with impressive reliability figures of 93.2% for all arrivals and 91.0% for trade arrivals. MSC followed with 74.8% and 75.7% respectively, while the Premier Alliance lagged behind with 58.0% and 55.5%. Among the former alliance structures, the Ocean Alliance reported a 71.0% reliability rate — consistent across both measures.

CLECAT notes that whereas this is an interesting trend, reliability tends to drop significantly at the connection points, particularly in North European ports where inland congestion, shortened yard windows, and unpredictable vessel calls are still a serious challenge.

Source:  Sea-Intelligence