News / Liner schedule reliability worsened in a Q4 'rife with challenges'

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The pervasive headwinds of Q4 24 translated into yet another decline in ocean shipping schedule reliability – but there are signs of a welcome respite for shippers on the horizon.

Liner database eeSea today published its Schedule Reliability Scorecard, which reveals average delays reached 4.8 days globally in Q4, up on Q3’s average of 4.5 days.

The period was “rife with challenges, and it shows”, said eeSea.

“While still comfortably shy of the worst global delays of 7.7 days during the peak Covid ...