Liner companies achieved a six-month high for service reliability last month according to latest figures from Drewry.

The on-time average of 76.0% for the 10 trades covered was a 4.1 point improvement on April, representing the third straight month-on-month rise.

Along with the better on-time performance there was also an improvement for the average deviation from the expected arrival at port, which came down from 0.9