News / Carrier reliability reaches new nadir in Q1 as premium services gain ground

26/04/2018

Ocean carrier schedule reliability is heading towards a new two-year low point, opening the way for the launch of more niche express premium services.

The latest on-time schedule analysis from CargoSmart reveals the decline in scheduling integrity in liner shipping.

The “blinkered” carrier focus on reducing costs ...

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Gary Ferrulli
April 26, 2018 at 4:35 pm
You get what you pay for. Rates continue to erode in major trades below 2017 levels, so the Hanjin collapse respite is gone and carriers revert to chasing market share through rate actions. And with fuel prices increasing steadily and more than 30% higher than a year ago, not a lot of incentive to speed up the ships as shippers for the vast majority of shipments, don’t pay for that changing dynamic, as they do in US domestic trades with truckers.

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