December 1, 2025
Sea-Intelligence has published issue 171 of the Global Liner Performance report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including October 2025.
In October 2025, global industry schedule reliability declined M/M by -3.5 percentage points to 61.4%. This is only the second major M/M decline in 2025 and comes after three consecutive months of stable global schedule reliability. 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 was the most reliable top-13 carrier in October 2025 with schedule reliability of 74.1%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd, and MSC with 69.6% and 65.9%, respectively. 9 of the remaining 10 carriers were in the 50-60% range.
Source: Sea-Intelligence