Port-to-port sea distance
Texas City to Chiba distance
The sea distance from Texas City (United States) to Chiba (Japan) is about 9,320 nautical miles (17,261 km), via the Panama Canal. At 12 knots that is about 32 days 9 hours at sea.
Distance
9,320 nm
17,261 km
Sea days @ 12 kn
32.4
32 days 9 hours
ECA miles
1,066 nm
11% of the route
Canals & straits
1
Panama Canal
Sea days by speed
| Speed | One way | Round voyage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 knots | 38.8 days | 77.7 days |
| 11 knots | 35.3 days | 70.6 days |
| 12 knots | 32.4 days | 64.7 days |
| 13 knots | 29.9 days | 59.7 days |
| 14 knots | 27.7 days | 55.5 days |
| 15 knots | 25.9 days | 51.8 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 Panama Canal
14,707 nm+5,387 nm
51.1 days at 12 kn · Strait of Gibraltar · Suez Canal · Bab-el-Mandeb · Malacca Strait · 3,881 nm in ECA
See it on the mapVia the Cape (avoiding both Suez and Panama)
15,899 nm+6,579 nm
55.2 days at 12 kn · Sunda Strait · 1,037 nm in ECA
See it on the map- The Panama Canal's Neopanamax locks take a maximum draft of 15.2 m, so VLCCs and laden Suezmaxes cannot use it. Without Panama the voyage is 14,707 nm, 5,387 nm (about 18.7 days at 12 knots) longer.
Voyage estimates by ship size
About this trade
US Gulf crude exports. US shale crude out of Corpus Christi, Houston and the LOOP to Europe and Asia, often reverse-lightered onto VLCCs offshore.
- Typical ship sizes
- VLCC, Suezmax, Aframax
- Related benchmark routes
- TD22 (USG–China VLCC), TD25 (USG–UKC Aframax)
Questions
How far is Texas City from Chiba by sea?
The sea distance from Texas City to Chiba is about 9,320 nautical miles (17,261 km), via the Panama Canal.
How long does a tanker take to sail from Texas City to Chiba?
About 32 days 9 hours at 12 knots, or 27.7 days at 14 knots. That is steaming time only; add time for port calls, canal transits and weather.
Which canals and straits does the Texas City–Chiba route pass?
The shortest route passes the Panama Canal. 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?
About 1,066 nm, or 11% of the voyage, is inside an ECA, where ships must burn 0.10% sulphur fuel or use a scrubber.
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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