Container lines improve schedule reliability

Global ocean carrier schedule reliability improved by 3.6 percentage points to 54.9 per cent in February compared to the previous month to the highest level recorded since May 2024, Sea Intelligence reported.

That is interesting news for the U-Freight Group with our comprehensive portfolio of international container shipping services for both LCL and FCL import and export cargoes.

Sea Intelligence said that on a year-on-year level, the February 2025 score was higher by 1.8 percentage points. Maersk was the most reliable top 13 carrier in February 2025 with schedule reliability of 60.2 per cent, followed by MSC at 57.4 per cent and Hapag-Lloyd at 57.3 per cent.

“February 2025 saw the launch of two new carrier alliances, Gemini Cooperation and Premier Alliance, while 2M and THE Alliance will be phased out in the coming months,” Alan Murphy, CEO, Sea-Intelligence, said.

He added: “Ocean Alliance will continue to operate as is. While MSC is not an alliance, the fact that they are going solo on East/West trades, and the vastness of their operated East/West network, means that they cannot be overlooked in an alliance context,” Mr Murphy added

It should be noted that the February 2025 measurements for the three new alliances are only for port calls in the origin regions of the East-West trades, as none of the vessels in the new alliances crossed their respective trades in the month of February, according to the latest issue of Sea-Intelligence’s Global Liner Performance (GLP) report.

“It is important to stress that the new alliances are just in the beginning phase of their network roll-out, and they will only be fully rolled out in July 2025, and only then will it be possible to truly evaluate their performance. It is nevertheless an interesting data point, to see how they have performed on the initial origin arrivals,” explained Mr Murphy.

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