Sea-Intelligence has published issue 171 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including October 2025. As the 120-page report is quite comprehensive and covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and 60+ carriers, this press release will only cover highlights from the full report.
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. PIL was the least reliable carrier in October 2025 with schedule reliability of 44.9%.
Traditionally, alliance scores are based on just the arrivals in destination regions, but as that metric was not available for the new alliances in February, we introduced a new measure, based on all arrivals, including the origin region calls on the East/West trades. We continue to present both measures, “All arrivals” which is comparable to the February measure, and “Trade arrivals”, which is comparable to the “old” alliances. When the new alliances are fully rolled out, these two measures will converge. (....)