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Evergreen transit times: estimated, planned port-to-port and actual
How long does an Evergreen shipment take on my route, and which figure should I read?
Read a route's median estimated transit for the whole journey to the place of delivery, its planned port-to-port transit for the sea leg alone, and its actual transit where one is published. All three start at the loaded-on-board date and come from tracked Evergreen shipments; only actual transit is measured from events Evergreen reported rather than from its estimates.
Three transit figures
bexy publishes three transit figures. All three start at the loaded-on-board date, so none counts the time before loading, such as moving cargo from an inland place of receipt to the port; spans over 120 days are dropped as data errors, and no route figure is published below 20 shipments. A shipment's own tracking page shows that one shipment's scheduled transit and, where a container status on its record names a discharge at the port of discharge, its actual transit, both within the same limits.
- Estimated transit
- Measured from the loaded-on-board date to the carrier's ETA at the final place of delivery, or the last planned arrival when the carrier gives none. It can include an inland leg after the port of discharge. Route, country and carrier pages lead with it.
- Planned port-to-port transit
- From the loaded-on-board date to the first planned arrival at the port of discharge in the carrier's Plan Moves, with no inland leg. Port-to-port route pages lead with it.
- Actual transit
- Measured from the loaded-on-board date to the day a container was discharged at the port of discharge, as reported in the carrier's container events. It is a reported event, not an estimate, and rests on far fewer shipments.
The most-tracked routes on bexy that publish a median
| Route | Tracked shipments | Median estimated transit | Middle half | Actual median to the port of discharge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| China to United States | 208,402 | 35 days (n = 9,783) | 26–46 days | 31 days (n = 4,871) |
| China to Netherlands | 51,836 | 42 days (n = 4,222) | 39–47 days | 50 days (n = 1,553) |
| China to United Kingdom | 36,876 | 45 days (n = 3,741) | 43–51 days | 56 days (n = 1,196) |
| China to Malaysia | 34,672 | 14 days (n = 1,063) | 9–21 days | 12 days (n = 770) |
| China to Germany | 34,465 | 50 days (n = 2,511) | 45–59 days | 56 days (n = 630) |
| China to Indonesia | 23,281 | 14 days (n = 863) | 12–18 days | 14 days (n = 348) |
| China to Vietnam | 22,172 | 9 days (n = 826) | 7–13 days | 10 days (n = 711) |
| China to India | 21,017 | 22 days (n = 1,154) | 19–26 days | 22 days (n = 405) |
| China to Australia | 19,414 | 28 days (n = 892) | 22–35 days | 32 days (n = 212) |
| China to Mexico | 19,104 | 21 days (n = 702) | 19–29 days | 22 days (n = 610) |
The estimated median and its middle half are Evergreen's estimates, to the place of delivery, and n is how many shipments they rest on. The actual median ends at the port of discharge, is shown only where at least 20 shipments carry a recorded discharge, and rests on other, far fewer shipments, so the gap between the two is no delay: the schedule slip measures that. Each route page states its data date and shipment count; cite that page.
Port to port versus the whole journey
From Shanghai to Los Angeles, the most-tracked port-to-port route bexy publishes a plan for, the median planned port-to-port transit is 15 days across 226 shipments. On China to United States, the published trade lane that carries the most of those shipments, the median estimated transit to the place of delivery is 35 days across 9,783 shipments.
A route's estimated transit and a port-to-port route's planned transit measure different things and rest on different shipments: the route figure runs to the place of delivery, can include an inland leg and covers every port on the route, while the port-to-port figure stops at the port of discharge. Do not read the gap between them as a delay.
Reading a median and its range
The median is the smallest number of days that at least half of the shipments fall within. The middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile, and 90% of shipments fall within the 90th percentile. bexy reads them from a day-by-day count by the nearest-rank method.
The route figures describe the Evergreen shipments bexy has found, not every Evergreen booking, and not your own: your shipment's ETA is on its tracking page.