Sea distance and voyage time
Rotterdam → Shanghai
Rotterdam, Netherlands to Shanghai, China: 10,581 nautical miles along the shipping lanes, via Strait of Dover, English Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Suez Canal, Bab-el-Mandeb, Strait of Malacca, Singapore Strait, Taiwan Strait.
Sea distance
10,581 nautical miles
- At 12 knots
- 36.7 days at sea
- Port time
- 4.0 days
- Voyage total
- 40.7 days
- At 10 / 12 / 14 knots
- 44.1 / 36.7 / 31.5 days at sea
- Passages
- Strait of Dover, English Channel, Strait of Gibraltar, Suez Canal, Bab-el-Mandeb, Strait of Malacca, Singapore Strait, Taiwan Strait
Indicative. Weather, canal transits, bunkering calls and waiting at anchor add to the real voyage. Port time depends on rates and terms at both ends.
Port of loading: Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Channel depth
- 11.0 m
- Cargo pier depth
- 6.4 m
- Max vessel draft
- n/a
- Max vessel length
- n/a
- Harbor size
- Large
- Cranes
- fixed, mobile, floating
Port of discharge: Shanghai, China
- Channel depth
- 7.9 m
- Cargo pier depth
- 11.0 m
- Max vessel draft
- n/a
- Max vessel length
- n/a
- Harbor size
- Large
- Cranes
- fixed, mobile, floating