Port-to-port sea distance
Jamnagar to Ulsan distance
The sea distance from Jamnagar (India) to Ulsan (South Korea) is about 5,292 nautical miles (9,800 km), via the Malacca Strait. At 12 knots that is about 18 days 9 hours at sea.
Distance
5,292 nm
9,800 km
Sea days @ 12 kn
18.4
18 days 9 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 | 22.0 days | 44.1 days |
| 11 knots | 20.0 days | 40.1 days |
| 12 knots | 18.4 days | 36.7 days |
| 13 knots | 17.0 days | 33.9 days |
| 14 knots | 15.7 days | 31.5 days |
| 15 knots | 14.7 days | 29.4 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)
5,893 nm+601 nm
20.5 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
About this trade
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
- LR2, LR1, MR
- Related benchmark routes
- TC1 (MEG–Japan LR2 naphtha), TC17 (MEG–East Africa MR)
Questions
How far is Jamnagar from Ulsan by sea?
The sea distance from Jamnagar to Ulsan is about 5,292 nautical miles (9,800 km), via the Malacca Strait.
How long does a tanker take to sail from Jamnagar to Ulsan?
About 18 days 9 hours at 12 knots, or 15.7 days at 14 knots. That is steaming time only; add time for port calls, canal transits and weather.
Which canals and straits does the Jamnagar–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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