Port-to-port sea distance
Ruwais to Chiba distance
The sea distance from Ruwais (United Arab Emirates) to Chiba (Japan) is about 6,665 nautical miles (12,344 km), via the Strait of Hormuz and Malacca Strait. At 12 knots that is about 23 days 3 hours at sea.
Distance
6,665 nm
12,344 km
Sea days @ 12 kn
23.1
23 days 3 hours
ECA miles
0 nm
No ECA on route
Canals & straits
2
Strait of Hormuz · Malacca Strait
Sea days by speed
| Speed | One way | Round voyage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 knots | 27.8 days | 55.5 days |
| 11 knots | 25.2 days | 50.5 days |
| 12 knots | 23.1 days | 46.3 days |
| 13 knots | 21.4 days | 42.7 days |
| 14 knots | 19.8 days | 39.7 days |
| 15 knots | 18.5 days | 37.0 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)
7,233 nm+568 nm
25.1 days at 12 kn · Strait of Hormuz · 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 568 nm (about 2.0 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 Ruwais from Chiba by sea?
The sea distance from Ruwais to Chiba is about 6,665 nautical miles (12,344 km), via the Strait of Hormuz and Malacca Strait.
How long does a tanker take to sail from Ruwais to Chiba?
About 23 days 3 hours at 12 knots, or 19.8 days at 14 knots. That is steaming time only; add time for port calls, canal transits and weather.
Which canals and straits does the Ruwais–Chiba 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.
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