COSCO sailing schedules
Over the last 90 days, COSCO departed on schedule about 69.5% of the time across 5,226 observed sailings, with roughly 30.5% of departures behind schedule and 90th-percentile schedule drift of about 168 hours (7 days). For your exact route, compare COSCO against every other line on the lane by transit time and observed arrival reliability before you book.
COSU · schedule data as of Jul 28, 2026.
What you get for COSCO
- Forward sailings: vessel, voyage, service loop, departure and arrival dates, and cut-offs where COSCO publishes them.
- Coverage: global Ocean Alliance trades with especially dense Asia–Europe and transpacific coverage.
- Reliability: once a lane has enough tracked port calls, we score COSCO on actual-vs-scheduled arrival, not on the schedule it published. Thin lanes are shown as low-sample, never guessed.
- Same shape as every line: COSCO reads the same as MSC, Maersk, or any other carrier, so you can rank them side by side.
How COSCO reliability is scored
We don't take a carrier's word for its transit time. When SchedulesMCP has enough tracked arrivals on a COSCO lane, it compares each actual arrival against what was scheduled and reports the observed on-time rate and the median and p90 transit. Lanes without enough observations are labelled low-sample rather than given a made-up score, so a number, when you see one, is real.
Compare COSCO against the alliance
COSCO rarely runs a lane alone. Put your origin and destination into the live tool to rank COSCO against every other line on that exact pair by transit time and observed reliability before you book.
Schedule footprint
What we currently track for COSCO across the forward schedule window: the sailings, the distinct port-pairs, and the named service loops behind them.
Top lanes COSCO sails
The busiest port-pairs on COSCO's network by tracked sailings. Open a lane for the full carrier line-up and upcoming departures.
| Lane | Sailings | Median transit |
|---|---|---|
| Busan → Antwerpen | 175 | 56 days |
| Busan → Felixstowe | 136 | 50 days |
| Busan → Hamburg | 136 | 56 days |
| Busan → Rotterdam | 136 | 55 days |
| Kaohsiung → Felixstowe | 113 | 47 days |
| Kaohsiung → Hamburg | 112 | 51 days |
| Busan → Valencia | 107 | 57 days |
| Port Klang (Pelabuhan Klang) → Kaohsiung | 102 | 18 days |
| Hong Kong → Antwerpen | 100 | 46 days |
| Kaohsiung → Rotterdam | 99 | 45 days |
Schedule reliability
How much COSCO's published departures moved over the last 90 days, measured from the revisions to their own ETDs, not from a survey. Higher drift means the board shifts more often after it's posted.
How reliable is COSCO for on-time arrival?
Across 63 lanes and 564 tracked sailings, COSCO ships arrive on schedule about 51% of the time, measured from actual versus forecast arrivals, not the published timetable. It is most reliable on Shanghai → Rotterdam (100%), and least reliable on Qingdao → Valencia (0%).
Most reliable lanes
| Lane | On-time arrivals | Tracked sailings |
|---|---|---|
| Shanghai → Rotterdam | 100% | 12 |
| Xiamen → Antwerpen | 100% | 11 |
Least reliable lanes
| Lane | On-time arrivals | Tracked sailings |
|---|---|---|
| Qingdao → Valencia | 0% | 9 |
| Qingdao → New York | 0% | 9 |
| Qingdao → Savannah | 0% | 9 |
COSCO schedules & reliability: FAQ
How reliable is COSCO for on-time arrival?
Across 63 lanes and 564 tracked sailings, COSCO ships arrive on schedule about 51% of the time (actual vs forecast arrivals), best on Shanghai → Rotterdam at 100%.
How reliable is COSCO?
Over the last 90 days, COSCO departed on schedule about 69.5% of the time across 5,226 observed sailings, with roughly 30.5% of departures behind schedule and 90th-percentile schedule drift of about 168 hours (7 days).
How reliable is COSCO on my lane?
COSCO's on-time reliability varies by lane, so SchedulesMCP scores it per route from actual versus scheduled arrivals rather than quoting one figure. Enter your origin and destination in the Compare tool to see COSCO's observed on-time percentage and transit time on that exact lane; lanes with too few tracked arrivals are marked early-data instead of guessed.
How do I compare COSCO against other carriers?
Open the Compare tool, enter an origin and destination, and COSCO is ranked side by side with every other carrier on that lane by observed on-time reliability, transit time, next departure and sailing frequency, so you can see before you book whether COSCO or a rival is the better call.
Where do COSCO sailing schedules come from?
COSCO sailings come from COSCO's published schedule API, normalised into the same schedule shape as every other line.
What trades does COSCO cover?
COSCO (COSU) covers global Ocean Alliance trades with especially dense Asia–Europe and transpacific coverage. SchedulesMCP normalises those forward sailings into the same shape as every other line so they rank directly against each other.