News / Transit times reveal true state of reliability, not queueing ships

As global schedule reliability hits rock bottom, new research highlights lockdowns in China are to blame for the increased container shipping transit times.

In a joint paper, Windward and Sea-Intelligence suggest the industry’s tendency to focus on port waiting times “only shows a partial picture of the real impact of congestion”.

The report says: “Measuring the total transit time between a container vessel’s last port of call to the next offers a much more accurate picture, in part because carriers decide to ...