Container carriers schedule reliability dropped by 1.9 percentage points in June

July 28, 2026

Sea-Intelligence has published issue 179 of the Global Liner Performance report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including June 2026.

Schedule reliability dropped M/M in June 2026 by -1.9 percentage points to 62.6%, which is still the second-highest reliability figure for the year. On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was lower by -4.7 percentage points.

Despite declining schedule reliability, the average delay for LATE vessel arrivals improved, decreasing M/M by -0.34 days to 5.31 days, although it is still the third-highest figure for this month. On a Y/Y level, the June 2026 figure was 0.78 days higher.

Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in June 2026 with schedule reliability of 77.1%. Hapag-Lloyd followed with 75.6%, and MSC with 72.1%.

Source: Sea-Intelligence