Port-to-port sea distance

Fujairah to Singapore distance

The sea distance from Fujairah (United Arab Emirates) to Singapore (Singapore) is about 3,345 nautical miles (6,194 km), via the Malacca Strait. At 12 knots that is about 11 days 15 hours at sea.

Distance

3,345 nm

6,194 km

Sea days @ 12 kn

11.6

11 days 15 hours

ECA miles

0 nm

No ECA on route

Canals & straits

Malacca Strait

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Sea days by speed

Speed	One way	Round voyage
10 knots	13.9 days	27.9 days
11 knots	12.7 days	25.3 days
12 knots	11.6 days	23.2 days
13 knots	10.7 days	21.4 days
14 knots	10.0 days	19.9 days
15 knots	9.3 days	18.6 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

Shortest route

3,345 nm

11.6 days at 12 kn · Malacca Strait

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Avoiding the Malacca Strait (via Sunda or Lombok)

4,101 nm+757 nm

14.2 days at 12 kn · Sunda Strait · Malacca Strait

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Very deep-draft ships sometimes avoid the Malacca and Singapore straits and go through the Lombok or Sunda strait instead, which adds 757 nm (about 2.6 days at 12 knots).

Voyage estimates by ship size

About this trade

Arabian Gulf → South-east Asia crude. Gulf crude into Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, often part-discharged or transhipped around the Singapore Strait.

Arabian Gulf & India → clean products. Naphtha, jet and diesel from the big export refineries at Ruwais, Jubail, Yanbu and Jamnagar, going east to Japan and Singapore, west to Europe, and to East Africa.

Typical ship sizes: VLCC, Suezmax, Aframax, LR2, LR1, MR
Related benchmark routes: TC1 (MEG–Japan LR2 naphtha), TC17 (MEG–East Africa MR)

Questions

How far is Fujairah from Singapore by sea?

The sea distance from Fujairah to Singapore is about 3,345 nautical miles (6,194 km), via the Malacca Strait.

How long does a tanker take to sail from Fujairah to Singapore?

About 11 days 15 hours at 12 knots, or 10.0 days at 14 knots. That is steaming time only; add time for port calls, canal transits and weather.

Which canals and straits does the Fujairah–Singapore route pass?

The shortest route passes the Malacca Strait. 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?

None. The whole route is outside Emission Control Areas, so the 0.50% global sulphur cap applies throughout.

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.