Rotterdam to Qingdao sea distance

Rotterdam, Netherlands (NLRTM) to Qingdao, China (CNQIN) is 10,945 nautical miles (20,269 km) by sea, via the Suez Canal.

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Distance and sailing time

Time at sea only, excluding port calls, canal waiting and weather.

Passages

• Dover Strait
• Strait of Gibraltar
• Suez Canal
• Bab-el-Mandeb
• Strait of Malacca

With Suez closed

Avoiding the Suez Canal, the shortest route is 13,757 nm (25,478 km) via the Panama Canal: 2,812 nm (26%) longer, or about 8.4 extra days at 14 knots.

Emissions estimate

Rough estimate for a post-Panamax container ship, not a certified figure. ECA share uses bounding boxes.

Compute it yourself

import { seaRoute } from 'searoute-ts';
import 'searoute-ts/ports';

const route = seaRoute('NLRTM', 'CNQIN', { vesselDraftMeters: 14 });
console.log(route.properties.length); // 10,945 nm

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Related routes

Reverse direction: Qingdao to Rotterdam · 10,945 nm

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• Rotterdam to Port Said · 3,356 nm
• Rotterdam to New York · 3,362 nm
• Rotterdam to Savannah · 3,879 nm

More to Qingdao

• Felixstowe to Qingdao · 10,847 nm
• Antwerpen to Qingdao · 10,941 nm
• Hamburg to Qingdao · 11,205 nm

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