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Container Ship Schedule arrival reliability fell to its lowest level in 2021

Posted on February 16, 2022   |  

  • Containerships’ capability to uphold published schedules reached the lowest level in the decade.
  • Schedule reliability dropped by 1.2%  points month over month to 32%, the lowest ever global schedule reliability since 2011, and on a yearlong level, schedule reliability decreased by 12.5% points.
  • schedule reliability across the 34 different trade lanes and over 60 carriers Sea-Intelligence tracks never surpassed 40%, and for the full year averaging just under 36% as carriers had shown some improvement between March and June but between August and November stayed between 33 and 34% reliability.
  • Maersk and Hamburg Sud's schedule reliability was over 40% while Evergreen showed the lower schedule reliability of 14%, and other Asian-based carriers, including Wan Hia, OOCL, COSCO, and Yang Ming, were all under 20%. 
  • The average delay for late vessel arrivals rose to 7.33 days in December, the 5th straight month with the delay figure exceeding 7 days. 
  • In January 2022, vessels scheduled to arrive at Yantian were delayed over 170 hours with an on-time ratio of less than 20%.  
  • There were 92 containerships scheduled to dock at the twin ports because all the California ports asked vessels to slow steam and wait further offshore and the average time awaiting berth, as per the 30-day average, is currently at 17.9 days. 



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