Late Start / Early Finish — what our own reports already record

“Late Start / Early Finish (Hrs)” is a standing column in all four of our productivity report templates — Break-Bulk, Bulk, RoRo and Rev.04 — filled in shift by shift at the quay. These are the totals it has been carrying.

1,658

crane-hours lost

Equivalent to 207 full eight-hour crane shifts. Total across 2024–2026.

54.9%

of all vessel-shifts carry a late start or early finish

12.1%

of all recorded delay time, of 13,687 h logged

16,460

crane-shift records behind these figures, from 1,267 reports

Break bulk — where the delay hours go

Hours lost per cause, 2024–2026, of 2,373 h total delays. Late start / early finish is the second largest cause — and the largest one that needs no counterparty to fix.

Delay due to CSO

1,081 h · 45.5%

Late Start / Early Finish

651 h · 27.4%

Idle Time

299 h · 12.6%

Open / Close Hatches

117 h · 4.9%

Crane Break Down

114 h · 4.8%

Lashing, Choking, Securing

74 h · 3.1%

Crane Shifting

25 h · 1.1%

Shifting Cargo

11 h · 0.4%

Waiting For Cargo Shipper

2 h · 0.1%

Worst on RoRo and break bulk

Late start / early finish as a share of that cargo type’s total delay hours.

RoRo — 1 of 9

47.4%

Break bulk — 2 of 9

27.4%

Rev.04 — 4 of 12

8.8%

Bulk — 6 of 9

7.8%

Improved in 2025, rising again in 2026

Share of crane-shift records carrying a late start or early finish.

63.6%

37.1%

45.1%

202420252026 YTD

This is not one crew. The pattern is flat across all three shifts — day 48.0%, afternoon 45.3%, night 50.3% — which points at handover and gang allocation rather than at any single team.