Port-to-port sea distance
Fujairah to Ulsan distance
The sea distance from Fujairah (United Arab Emirates) to Ulsan (South Korea) is about 5,895 nautical miles (10,917 km), via the Malacca Strait. At 12 knots that is about 20 days 11 hours at sea.
Distance
5,895 nm
10,917 km
Sea days @ 12 kn
20.5
20 days 11 hours
ECA miles
0 nm
No ECA on route
Canals & straits
1
Malacca Strait
Sea days by speed
| Speed | One way | Round voyage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 knots | 24.6 days | 49.1 days |
| 11 knots | 22.3 days | 44.7 days |
| 12 knots | 20.5 days | 40.9 days |
| 13 knots | 18.9 days | 37.8 days |
| 14 knots | 17.5 days | 35.1 days |
| 15 knots | 16.4 days | 32.7 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 Malacca Strait (via Sunda or Lombok)
6,496 nm+601 nm
22.6 days at 12 kn · Sunda Strait
See it on the map- Very deep-draft ships sometimes avoid the Malacca and Singapore straits and go through the Lombok or Sunda strait instead, which adds 601 nm (about 2.1 days at 12 knots).
Voyage estimates by ship size
VLCC Fujairah–Ulsan
42.5-day round voyage · 2,071 t fuel · 6,526 t CO2
Suezmax Fujairah–Ulsan
42.5-day round voyage · 1,509 t fuel · 4,756 t CO2
LR2 Fujairah–Ulsan
42.5-day round voyage · 1,239 t fuel · 3,903 t CO2
LR1 Fujairah–Ulsan
42.5-day round voyage · 1,045 t fuel · 3,292 t CO2
MR Fujairah–Ulsan
42.5-day round voyage · 889 t fuel · 2,803 t CO2
About this trade
Arabian Gulf → Far East crude. Arabian Gulf crude to China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan is the benchmark VLCC trade and the single biggest source of long-haul tanker demand.
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, LR2, LR1, MR
- Related benchmark routes
- TD3C (MEG–China VLCC), TC1 (MEG–Japan LR2 naphtha), TC17 (MEG–East Africa MR)
Questions
How far is Fujairah from Ulsan by sea?
The sea distance from Fujairah to Ulsan is about 5,895 nautical miles (10,917 km), via the Malacca Strait.
How long does a tanker take to sail from Fujairah to Ulsan?
About 20 days 11 hours at 12 knots, or 17.5 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–Ulsan 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.
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- Fujairah to Karachi616 nm
- Fujairah to New Mangalore1,368 nm
- Fujairah to Djibouti1,490 nm
- Fujairah to Colombo1,740 nm
- Fujairah to Jeddah2,094 nm
- Fujairah to Mombasa2,311 nm
- Fujairah to Dar es Salaam2,461 nm
- Fujairah to Paradip2,676 nm
- Fujairah to Chittagong2,916 nm
- Fujairah to Port Louis2,929 nm
- Fujairah to Pengerang3,345 nm
- Fujairah to Singapore3,345 nm
More voyages to Ulsan
- Burnaby to Ulsan5,014 nm
- Vancouver to Ulsan5,014 nm
- Jamnagar to Ulsan5,292 nm
- Sikka to Ulsan5,292 nm
- Mina Al Fahal to Ulsan5,790 nm
- Zirku Island to Ulsan6,148 nm
- Halul Island to Ulsan6,165 nm
- Das Island to Ulsan6,241 nm
- Jebel Dhanna to Ulsan6,241 nm
- Ruwais to Ulsan6,241 nm
- Sitra to Ulsan6,283 nm
- Ju'aymah to Ulsan6,290 nm