If improved schedule reliability is one of the desired benefits of joining an alliance, the jury is still out on whether the latest two alliances have met that goal

RESEARCH from SeaIntel shows that while schedule reliability was down overall across the industry during March, the performance of the individual alliances varied greatly across trade lanes and alliances.

The 2M alliance between Maersk Line, individually the top performer on the Asia-Europe trades, and MSC, which was often found in the lower end of rankings in these trades, ranked as the best performer in the total east-west schedule reliability, according to SeaIntel.

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