After the retreat in July, which halted a progression ongoing since the beginning of the year, the average punctuality of container ship arrivals at destination ports remained stable in August. According to Sea-Intelligence data, ships arriving ‘on time’ were 65.3% of the total (0.1 percentage points more than in July), a ‘score’ which is nonetheless the second best for the eighth month of the year in the 2019-2025 interval. Furthermore, the analysis company notes, it is a full 12.7 percentage points higher than that recorded in August 2024.
The average delay in the month was also almost stable, reaching an average of 4.8 days for the units that do not respect the schedule, or 0.07 days more than in July.
No surprises regarding the identity of the most reliable carriers. At the top of the ranking is always Maersk with a punctuality of 76.4%, followed by its partner (in Gemini) Hapag-Lloyd with 72.4%. The next six carriers achieve punctuality percentages between 60 and 70%, with the remaining ones – out of a total of 13 – recording scores between 50 and 60%. Bringing up the rear this time is Wan Hai (in July it was HMM), with 53.3%.
For August as well, Sea-Intelligence continued to offer a double measurement, the first based on the reliability of ship arrivals at all ports served by the new services, the second relating only to destination ports, i.e., where commercial operations are planned (the method the company usually uses to monitor this parameter). Between July and August, the company observes, Gemini was the most punctual alliance in both cases (performance of 89.9% and 86.9% respectively), followed by MSC in second place (with 79% and 80.2%). The Premier Alliance, however, achieved performances, in that order, of 55.4% and 56%. Also in this case, the partnership between ONE, HMM and Yang Ming therefore appears to have been surpassed by the ‘old’ Ocean Alliance (for which only arrival at destination ports is recorded) with 66.9%.
