Denmark-based research and analysis specialist Sea‑Intelligence reported that global industry schedule reliability improved M/M by 2.8 percentage points to 64.1% in November, bringing it back in line with the levels seen between May and September.
This is also the second-highest recorded figure for November.
Sea-Intelligence released its 172 issue of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including November 2025.
On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was up 9.5 percentage points. The average delay for late vessel arrivals decreased M/M by -0.16 days to 4.88 days, making it the second-lowest figure for this month. On a Y/Y level, the November 2025 figure was -0.54 days lower.
Maersk has climbed in November in the first place as the most reliable top 13 carrier in the report with schedule reliability of 78.1%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd with 77.1%.
The next three carriers were in the 60-70% range, while the remaining eight carriers were in the 50-60% range.
According to the report, in October/November 2025, Gemini Cooperation recorded 89.7% schedule reliability across ALL arrivals and 88.3% across TRADE arrivals, followed by MSC at 74.4% for ALL arrivals and 75.2% for TRADE arrivals. Premier Alliance recorded 55.7% for ALL arrivals and 55.0% across TRADE arrivals. For the “old” alliances, “ALL arrivals” remain equal to “TRADE arrivals,” and Ocean Alliance scored 61.1%.
Traditionally, alliance scores are based on just the arrivals in destination regions, but as that metric was not available for the new alliances in February, Sea‑Intelligence introduced a new measure, based on all arrivals, including the origin region calls on the East/West trades.
Sea‑Intelligence continues to present both measures, “All arrivals” which is comparable to the February measure, and “Trade arrivals,” which is comparable to the “old” alliances.
When the new alliances are fully rolled out, these two measures will converge.
The full report can be found here.
