Port-to-port sea distance
Beaumont to Chiba distance
The sea distance from Beaumont (United States) to Chiba (Japan) is about 9,321 nautical miles (17,263 km), via the Panama Canal. At 12 knots that is about 32 days 9 hours at sea.
Distance
9,321 nm
17,263 km
Sea days @ 12 kn
32.4
32 days 9 hours
ECA miles
1,082 nm
12% of the route
Canals & straits
1
Panama Canal
Sea days by speed
| Speed | One way | Round voyage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 knots | 38.8 days | 77.7 days |
| 11 knots | 35.3 days | 70.6 days |
| 12 knots | 32.4 days | 64.7 days |
| 13 knots | 29.9 days | 59.8 days |
| 14 knots | 27.7 days | 55.5 days |
| 15 knots | 25.9 days | 51.8 days |
Steaming time only, with no allowance for weather, canal waiting or port time. The round voyage assumes the ship ballasts back on the same route.
Routes compared
Avoiding the Panama Canal
14,686 nm+5,365 nm
51.0 days at 12 kn · Strait of Gibraltar · Suez Canal · Bab-el-Mandeb · Malacca Strait · 3,860 nm in ECA
See it on the mapVia the Cape (avoiding both Suez and Panama)
15,878 nm+6,556 nm
55.1 days at 12 kn · Sunda Strait · 1,016 nm in ECA
See it on the map- The Panama Canal's Neopanamax locks take a maximum draft of 15.2 m, so VLCCs and laden Suezmaxes cannot use it. Without Panama the voyage is 14,686 nm, 5,365 nm (about 18.6 days at 12 knots) longer.
Voyage estimates by ship size
About this trade
US Gulf crude exports. US shale crude out of Corpus Christi, Houston and the LOOP to Europe and Asia, often reverse-lightered onto VLCCs offshore.
- Typical ship sizes
- VLCC, Suezmax, Aframax
- Related benchmark routes
- TD22 (USG–China VLCC), TD25 (USG–UKC Aframax)
Questions
How far is Beaumont from Chiba by sea?
The sea distance from Beaumont to Chiba is about 9,321 nautical miles (17,263 km), via the Panama Canal.
How long does a tanker take to sail from Beaumont to Chiba?
About 32 days 9 hours at 12 knots, or 27.7 days at 14 knots. That is steaming time only; add time for port calls, canal transits and weather.
Which canals and straits does the Beaumont–Chiba route pass?
The shortest route passes the Panama Canal. Alternative routings are listed above for ships that cannot or will not use them.
How much of the voyage is inside an Emission Control Area?
About 1,082 nm, or 12% of the voyage, is inside an ECA, where ships must burn 0.10% sulphur fuel or use a scrubber.
Terms on this page
Distances are calculated by Vessbook on a modelled global shipping-lane network for a tanker at 12 m draft, from berth area to berth area.
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