Sea-Intelligence: Global schedule reliability remains stable

Sea-Intelligence found MSC’s network design nearly halves reportable sailing distances, giving it a cost advantage in ETS expenses over Ocean Alliance’s modest 7% reduction.

The Red Sea region experienced an 85% drop in deep-sea port calls, from over 200 to under 40 per month, during January-June 2024.

In July 2024, global schedule reliability dropped to 52.1%, with average delays improving slightly to 5.24 days, but still up 0.63 days year-over-year.

Sea-Intelligence’s analysis reveals significant discrepancies in carbon emissions calculators among Ocean Alliance carriers for the Shanghai-Rotterdam route.

US retailers have been growing inventories as a way of restocking and not due to an underlying increase in consumer spending.

Sea-Intelligence: Hapag-Lloyd was the most reliable top-13 carrier in June 2024 with schedule reliability of 55.4%.