Port-to-port sea distance

Mina Al Ahmadi to Huizhou distance

The sea distance from Mina Al Ahmadi (Kuwait) to Huizhou (China) is about 5,344 nautical miles (9,897 km), via the Strait of Hormuz and Malacca Strait. At 12 knots that is about 18 days 13 hours at sea.

Distance

5,344 nm

9,897 km

Sea days @ 12 kn

18.6

18 days 13 hours

ECA miles

0 nm

No ECA on route

Canals & straits

Strait of Hormuz · Malacca Strait

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Sea days by speed

Speed	One way	Round voyage
10 knots	22.3 days	44.5 days
11 knots	20.2 days	40.5 days
12 knots	18.6 days	37.1 days
13 knots	17.1 days	34.3 days
14 knots	15.9 days	31.8 days
15 knots	14.8 days	29.7 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

Shortest route

5,344 nm

18.6 days at 12 kn · Strait of Hormuz · Malacca Strait

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Avoiding the Malacca Strait (via Sunda or Lombok)

5,949 nm+605 nm

20.7 days at 12 kn · Strait of Hormuz · Sunda 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 605 nm (about 2.1 days at 12 knots).

Voyage estimates by ship size

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.

Typical ship sizes: VLCC, Suezmax
Related benchmark routes: TD3C (MEG–China VLCC)

Questions

How far is Mina Al Ahmadi from Huizhou by sea?

The sea distance from Mina Al Ahmadi to Huizhou is about 5,344 nautical miles (9,897 km), via the Strait of Hormuz and Malacca Strait.

How long does a tanker take to sail from Mina Al Ahmadi to Huizhou?

About 18 days 13 hours at 12 knots, or 15.9 days at 14 knots. That is steaming time only; add time for port calls, canal transits and weather.

Which canals and straits does the Mina Al Ahmadi–Huizhou route pass?

The shortest route passes the Strait of Hormuz and 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.