Container line schedule reliability drops to 61.4% in October | Container news

Denmark-based research and analysis specialist Sea‑Intelligence reported that global industry schedule reliability declined M/M by -3.5 percentage points to 61.4% in October.

This is only the second major M/M decline in 2025 and comes after three consecutive months of stable global schedule reliability.

Sea-Intelligence released its 171 issue of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including October 2025.

On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was up 11.1 percentage points. The average delay for late vessel arrivals increased M/M by 0.04 days to 4.98 days. On a Y/Y level though, the October 2025 figure was -0.87 days lower.

Maersk has climbed in October in the first place as the most reliable top 13 carrier in the report with schedule reliability of 74.1%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd, and MSC with 69.6% and 65.9%, respectively.

Nine of the remaining 10 carriers were in the 50-60% range.

Traditionally, alliance scores are based on just the arrivals in destination regions, but as that metric was not available for the new alliances in February, Sea‑Intelligence introduced a new measure, based on all arrivals, including the origin region calls on the East/West trades.

Sea‑Intelligence continues to present both measures, “All arrivals” which is comparable to the February measure, and “Trade arrivals,” which is comparable to the “old” alliances.

When the new alliances are fully rolled out, these two measures will converge.

According to the report, in September/October 2025, Gemini Cooperation recorded 88.6% schedule reliability across ALL arrivals, and 86.0% across TRADE arrivals, followed by MSC at 77.5% for ALL arrivals and 80.5% for TRADE arrivals, while Premier Alliance recorded 64.6% for ALL arrivals and 54.6% across TRADE Arrivals.

For the “old” alliances, “ALL arrivals” are equal to “TRADE arrivals,” and Ocean Alliance scored 65.0%.

The full report can be found here.