News / Time is money: report shows carrier reliability leads to higher profits

Reliability does positively impact container line profitability – at least according to SeaIntel’s latest Sunday Spotlight.

Recently, there has been a belief that a carrier’s relative profitability was independent of its reliability relative to competitors.

To test this, SeaIntel calculated coefficients between profitability and reliability across 14 quarters, using data from the major carriers that publish financials on a quarterly basis.

Analysing results from the first quarter of 2014 to the second quarter of 2017, the report found only a 5.7% chance that reliability and profitability were ...