Port congestion on Asia sees liner schedule reliability plummet
The Loadstar · Sep 2, 2026
Global container shipping line reliability suffered its sharpest monthly decline in more than five years in July, as worsening congestion at major Asian ports sent on-time performance plunging. According to Sea-Intelligence, global schedule reliability fell 6.1 percentage points month on month, to 56.4% in July – the steepest single-month decline recorded since January 2021. The analyst said there had been just eight occasions in the past 14 years when global reliability had ...
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