According to SeaIntel’s container carriers’ schedule reliability report covering the whole of 2012, Maersk Line was the top performer, but Mediterranean Shipping Co was the most improved.
The analysis based on 10,000 monthly arrivals in more than 200 ports across 32 tradelanes ranked Maersk Line top at 91%, followed by Hamburg Sud and APL, against an average score of 81%.
The report said that MSC had comfortably recorded the biggest improvement in reliability, increasing its performance level by 11%.
Lars Jensen, CEO and partner at SeaIntel, said: “It is very important to note that only 2% performance separated number three from number eight in the ranking table – basically, this means that a large number of carriers have identical global performance levels.’
Moreover, SeaIntel said that schedule integrity “varies significantly across individual trades”, thus shippers should look at the specific trade data, not the global performance.
Jenson said: “If this development continues in 2013, the difference in reliability across carriers will continue to narrow – which is to the advantage of the shippers.
“However it will, in the long term, result in a challenge for some of the carriers, as reliability will, over time, become less of a differentiator.’
Elsewhere, Drewry’s 2012 fourth-quarter east-west trades on-time performance report, released last Friday, concluded that Hanjin Shipping had overtaken Maersk Line as the most reliable major carrier. The South Korean carrier was ranked seventh in SeaIntel’s full-year report.
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