Cartagena to Gdansk shipping route.

The shipping route from Cartagena, Colombia to Gdansk, Poland covers 5,446 nautical miles port to port, on a direct course. On a globe the two ports sit 9,337 km apart, so the ship sails 1.08 times the straight line distance. No canals or major straits on this leg, the ship stays close to the direct line.

Pure steaming time is 16.2 days at 14 knots. A carrier that slow steams at 12 knots to save fuel needs 18.9 days, and a fast 18 knot string about 12.6. Container transit time on a liner service is longer than the steaming time: ships call at other ports on the rotation, and cargo may transship at a hub. Add terminal time at Cartagena and Gdansk to plan the full ocean transit time.

1,103 nm of the route, 20% of it, lies inside US Caribbean Sea ECA, North Sea ECA and Baltic Sea ECA. In an emission control area ships must burn fuel with no more than 0.1% sulphur or clean the exhaust with scrubbers. That fuel costs more, and carriers add it to the ocean freight bill as a low sulphur or ECA surcharge.

Container freight rates on Cartagena to Gdansk move with fuel prices, ship capacity and the season. Compare several carriers before booking: the cheapest sailing is often the slowest one. At Gdansk (PLGDN) carriers give about 7.5 free days before demurrage and detention charges start, so plan the truck or rail pickup before the box lands.

Of the 65 port to port routes from Cartagena in this directory, Gdansk is the 29th shortest. Closer destinations include Buenos Aires (5,214 nm), Marsaxlokk (5,129 nm) and Gothenburg (5,049 nm).