Port-to-port sea distance
Yanbu to Chiba distance
The sea distance from Yanbu (Saudi Arabia) to Chiba (Japan) is about 7,366 nautical miles (13,641 km), via the Bab-el-Mandeb and Malacca Strait. At 12 knots that is about 25 days 14 hours at sea.
Distance
7,366 nm
13,641 km
Sea days @ 12 kn
25.6
25 days 14 hours
ECA miles
0 nm
No ECA on route
Canals & straits
2
Bab-el-Mandeb · Malacca Strait
Sea days by speed
| Speed | One way | Round voyage |
|---|---|---|
| 10 knots | 30.7 days | 61.4 days |
| 11 knots | 27.9 days | 55.8 days |
| 12 knots | 25.6 days | 51.1 days |
| 13 knots | 23.6 days | 47.2 days |
| 14 knots | 21.9 days | 43.8 days |
| 15 knots | 20.5 days | 40.9 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)
7,866 nm+501 nm
27.3 days at 12 kn · Bab-el-Mandeb · 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 501 nm (about 1.7 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 Yanbu from Chiba by sea?
The sea distance from Yanbu to Chiba is about 7,366 nautical miles (13,641 km), via the Bab-el-Mandeb and Malacca Strait.
How long does a tanker take to sail from Yanbu to Chiba?
About 25 days 14 hours at 12 knots, or 21.9 days at 14 knots. That is steaming time only; add time for port calls, canal transits and weather.
Which canals and straits does the Yanbu–Chiba route pass?
The shortest route passes the Bab-el-Mandeb 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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