Sea-Intelligence: Hapag-Lloyd most reliable in June

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.

Carriers plan to blank 3.9% of Asia-North America West Coast capacity, aligning with pre-pandemic averages, indicating confidence in the 2024 peak season.

Rising demand led to a significant influx of non-alliance capacity, including niche carriers on the Asia-North Europe route.

In May 2024, global schedule reliability rose by 3.8% from April to 55.8% with notable gains on the Asia to NAWC route. May was the best performance yet for 2024, but still 11.0% lower year-on-year.