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The latest issue of the Sea-Intelligence Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, which covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and more than sixty carriers, showed that although reliability improved in May it was still down by 2.3 percentage points compared to the same month last year.

"This means that the 2022 score has been slightly below the 2021 level in each of the first five months," said Alan Murphy, CEO, Sea-Intelligence.

The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals decreased once again, this time by 0.37 days to 6.17 days in May 2022. The delay figure is now firmly below the 7-day mark, but it still continues to be the highest across each month when compared historically, albeit with the margin decreasing sharply.

With schedule reliability of 50.3 per cent, Maersk was the most reliable carrier in May 2022, followed by Hamburg Sud with 43.7 per cent. There were six carriers with schedule reliability of 30-40 per cent and six with schedule reliability of 20-30 per cent, the report showed.

"In May 2022, once again, a lot of the carriers were very close to each other in terms of schedule reliability, with 11 carriers within 7 percentage points of each other. Wan Hai had the lowest schedule reliability in May 2022 of 22.1 per cent. On a year-on-year level, only four of the top-14 carriers recorded an improvement in schedule reliability in May 2022, with the largest improvement by Maersk of 4.4 percentage points," Mr Murphy pointed out.