News / Volumes remain stable, but liner schedule reliability has continued to drop

The liner industry’s schedule reliability performance declined in the first quarter of this year, reserving earlier improvements as the Red Sea crisis and mounting port congestion disrupted carrier services.

According to new data from liner database eeSea, which today published its first-quarter Schedule Reliability Scorecard, after seeing a widespread improvement during most of last year, industry-wide on-time performance of vessels went into reverse in November.

“Berth stays have increased, and on-time performance has fallen from an average 35% in 2023 to 27% ...