Zim came out on top with a score of 87.8% schedule reliability among the Top-19 companies reviewed.

“Improved service levels and increased schedule reliability for our customers is a strategic goal for ZIM; the results of our focused efforts are reflected in the reports,” said Rafael Ben-Ari, ZIM VP Shipping.

Seaintel’s report shows carriers made big improvement in the period, with schedule reliability in 2016-Q2 increasing to 85.0% from 78.7% in 2016-Q1, improving 8.5% on a Y/Y level. “In 2016-Q2 all top-20 carriers recorded an increase in schedule reliability over 2016-Q1, with HMM and APL showing the biggest increases of 8.1 and 7.6 %age points to 85.0% and 85.8%, respectively.

Schedule reliability in 2016-Q2 was based on 32,756 distinct vessel arrivals. From a global perspective ZIM, MOL and Hamburg Süd were the most reliable carriers with on-time performances of 87.8%, 87.3% and 87.1%, respectively.

The largest Y/Y increases in schedule reliability were seen from MSC, ZIM and Yang Ming by 15.7, 12.0 and 8.0 %age points, respectively” Seaintel surmarised. Reported by trade lane, The Asia-USWC trade lane showed an improvement of 12.1% to 83.1% from 71.0% in 2016-Q1, while on a Y/Y level the schedule reliability jumped 21.4%.

ZIM, MOL, Evergreen and Hanjin were the best performing carriers at 92.1%, 90.7%, 89.8% and 89.4%, respectively in Q2. In the Asia-USEC trade lane, schedule reliability was up 11% to 83.8% from 72.8% in 2016-Q1 and 7.7% on a Y/Y level from 76.1% in 2015-Q2. Maersk Line and MSC were the best performing carriers in the trade lane in 2016-Q2, both scoring at 95.1%.

Elsewhere, the Asia-North Europe trade lane experienced the largest month on month increase of 20.4%, with schedule reliability reaching 81.8% in 2016-Q2, yet it still lost 12.0 %age points on a Y/Y level, Seaintel noted. “The best-performing carriers were Maersk Line, MSC and Yang Ming, at 92.5%, 92.3% and 85.7%, respectively.

In the Asia-Mediterranean trade lane quarterly schedule reliability improved by 3.3 %age points to 85.9% from 82.6% in 2016-Q1. The best performing carriers in the trade lane were K Line at 96.5%, ZIM at 95.5% and OOCL at 90.7%”. Further information on Seaintel’s Global Liner Performance reports can be found here