MAERSK and Hamburg Sud came in first and second in Drewry's containership reliability rankings ahead of lagging runner-ups Cosco, Evergreen, "K" Line, Hanjin and Yang Ming in that order.
The Asia-Europe trade was the least reliable during August-October with only 58 per cent of ships arriving on-time, compared to 62 per cent in the transpacific and 77 per cent in the transatlantic.
"The industry's on-time performance is unacceptably low for many shippers," said Simon Heaney, senior manager of supply chain research at Drewry.
But Mr Heaney expected improvement to result from lower oil prices. "Lower fuel costs won't immediately see containerships running at their design speeds. But at the very least carriers should now be more willing to speed up if they fall behind schedule," he said.
Specifically, Maersk Line had an on-time rate of 80.4 per cent and Hamburg Sud came in at 78.8 per cent. They were well ahead of runners up Cosco at 69.9 per cent, and with its CKYHE Alliance partners, Evergreen, "K" Line, Hanjin and Yang Ming not too far behind.
London's Drewry Maritime Research has developed the new online version of its Carrier Performance Insight in collaboration with Hong Kong's shipment management software company CargoSmart.
This deploys Automatic Identification System (AIS) data to measure on-time port arrivals against schedules on 350 different port pair combinations.
Industry-wide containership reliability improved gradually in the three month period to October. The latest data shows that aggregate on-time performance for the Asia-Europe, transpacific and transatlantic trades improved to 64 per cent in October, up from 63 per cent in September and 55 per cent in August.
Despite the steady monthly improvement, the rolling three-month performance (August-October) was lower than for the previous three months at 60.6 per cent versus 61.1 per cent. The average deviation between the scheduled day of arrival (ETA) and actual day of arrival (ATA) remained at 1.1 day for the same period.
WORLD SHIPPING
10 December 2014 - 21:39
Maersk and Hamburg Sud lead Drewry's new carrier reliability rankings
MAERSK and Hamburg Sud came in first and second in Drewry's containership reliability rankings ahead of lagging runner-ups Cosco, Evergreen, "K" Line, Hanjin and Yang Ming in that order.
WORLD SHIPPING
10 December 2014 - 21:39
Maersk and Hamburg Sud lead Drewry's new carrier reliability rankings
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