Kaohsiung to Montreal shipping route.

Kaohsiung to Montreal is a 11,948 nautical mile shipping route via Suez Canal, heading north from Taiwan to Canada. That is 22,128 km of water against 12,308 km as the crow flies. On the way the vessel passes Suez Canal, Bab-el-Mandeb, Strait of Malacca and Strait of Gibraltar, so canal transit fees and waiting time at the canal are part of every voyage.

Shipping time depends on speed. At 14 knots, a common container ship service speed, the passage takes 35.6 days at sea. Slow steaming at 12 knots stretches it to 41.5 days, while 18 knots brings it down to 27.7. Liner schedules on the lane quote 24 to 42 days port to port, because the services call at other ports and some transship. Over the last 30 days we counted 5 sailings by 2 carriers (Maersk and OOCL).

Red Sea security changes the sea distance on this lane. A ship sent via Panama Canal sails 12,414 nm instead of 11,948 nm and spends roughly 1.4 extra days at sea. Ask your forwarder which routing the carrier uses: the booking price and the arrival date both depend on it.

3,001 nm of the route, 25% of it, lies inside North American ECA and Mediterranean 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.

Recent freight rates for TWKHH to CAMTR start at $7,350 for a 20GP and $9,100 for a 40GP ($9,150 for a 40HC). These are spot market prices from carriers that sail the lane; your quote will also include terminal handling, documentation and any bunker surcharge. At Montreal (CAMTR) carriers give about 3 free days before demurrage and detention charges start, so plan the truck or rail pickup before the box lands.

Of the 64 port to port routes from Kaohsiung in this directory, Montreal is the 64th shortest. Closer destinations include New York (11,105 nm), Gdansk (10,879 nm) and Buenos Aires (10,738 nm).