Global schedule reliability fell to ~56% in July.
Late vessels averaged ~6 days behind schedule.
Those numbers matter.
But they measure vessel arrivals.
Not the full cargo journey.
A ship can arrive on time.
The box can still miss a connection.
It can wait at the terminal. Or reach the customer days later.
So is shipping measuring the right thing?
Here are 5️⃣ signals behind it:
1️⃣ Carrier performance varies sharply
On-time performance in July: