The Thinking for On-Time Ratio Ocean vs Rail

Shipping consulting and analysis company Seaintelligence said that according to the continuous monitoring of the reliability of the container transportation industry, the 2018 container liner's on-time rate is unbearable and unbearable.

According to a study by the analyst company, only 70% of container ships arrived on time last year.

The analysis company pointed out that in the eight months of last year, the quasi-class rate was at the lowest level in history. Compared to 2017, availability in 2018 fell by 3.7 percentage points to 70.8%, the lowest level during the 2012-2018 period.

Seaintelligence wrote: "As far as the reliability of the schedule is concerned, especially from the perspective of the shipper, it is terrible in 2018. Among the three shipping alliances, only one of the major liner companies has improved the schedule time reliability. The sea is the most achievable on time."

Followed by Maersk and Hamburg South America, the reliability was 75.6% and 74.6% respectively. As far as Maersk is concerned, the ability to arrive on time has dropped by one percentage point compared to 2017. From the alliance level, the Ocean Alliance is the most accurate.

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Among the major trade routes, only Asia and Northern Europe have improved compared to last year. However, from the perspective of the analysis company, the 0.3 percentage point increase is negligible.

Since 2018, the reliability of the container industry has been severely criticized by several shipping company customers. As early as the first quarter, Kuehne+Nagel said: “The current level of reliability is a problem, which is why many customers come to us and ask us to help them manage their supply chain, rather than the customer in a problematic situation. Deal with the carrier."

Prior to this, the container transportation company's reliability record for the first quarter of this year was 66.4%. As early as last September, MSC and Maersk announced that they had upgraded the Asia-Europe route network several times, increasing the number of ships and reducing the number of stops. Another Ocean Alliance has also made a difference.

In terms of specific rankings, Wanhai Shipping ranked first with 75.9%, followed by Maersk Line 75.6% and Hamburg South America 74.6%. The fourth to tenth places are Mediterranean Shipping, APL, CMA CGM, OOCL, Evergreen Shipping, Starship and COSCO Shipping.

From the perspective of the three major alliances of containers, it can be said that the standard rate of the Ocean Alliance is the most reliable.

Among the major trade routes, only the Asian-Norwegian route has increased the on-time rate.

In 2018, the problem of the standard rate of the container shipping industry has been criticized by the major shippers. As early as the first quarter, K+N revealed to the outside media that it was described as "a problem."

However, the container shipping company is also making efforts to optimize the quasi-class rate. For example, Maersk Line and Mediterranean Shipping of the 2M Alliance updated their network of Asian and European routes in September, increasing the number of ships and reducing the number of ships.

In addition, the Ocean Alliance has also made corresponding adjustments.

Of course, some people in the industry pointed out that the quasi-rate statistics table made by third-party organizations is only a statistical table. For the shipping companies, the quasi-class rate statistics actually have a lot of operational space. At the same time, the table can not directly explain the problems encountered by each shipping company in the practical dimension. As far as the comprehensive ranking of Wanhai Shipping is concerned, it is only a regional shipping company after 2016, it is only selective. It is involved in some of the main route trades, and is no longer a typical global carrier company. When compared with giants such as Maersk, Mediterranean Shipping, COSCO Shipping, and CMA, the diversity of routes and the number of fleets are not in one volume and dimension.

Ok, Let's back to the rail performance, the main delay reasons are for the weather problem, border gateways congestions, lack of enough car wagons to do the transfer (mainly at Russia side and Europe side), unbalanced import and export trains, and sometimes happened for the customs inspections at the border customs... I agree we have the rooms to improve but I would more believe all the carriers did their most efforts to try to correct these problem, still some problems are out of their capabilities.

As a leading company focusing on rail business, Tiedada we ask for more understanding and patient, afterall, rail transportation as a new logistics mode and formally started fm 2014, we appeal we can allow some errors in the growing road of the rail. some clients don't accept any delay for the rail and only pay the ocean freight for rail transportation if some delay happened, whether it is force majeure or not, which is upset for all the participates of the rail logistics.

At the starting of the Chinese Lunar year, which means every business will be resumed in next week, we have the confidence for better performance of the rail and we believe we will have more mature mindset to face this new mode of transportation, 2019, we will be more success, tks!