Kaohsiung to Vancouver shipping route.

The shipping route from Kaohsiung, Taiwan to Vancouver, Canada covers 5,592 nautical miles port to port, on a direct course. On a globe the two ports sit 9,868 km apart, so the ship sails 1.05 times the straight line distance. No canals or major straits on this leg, the ship stays close to the direct line.

Shipping time depends on speed. At 14 knots, a common container ship service speed, the passage takes 16.6 days at sea. Slow steaming at 12 knots stretches it to 19.4 days, while 18 knots brings it down to 12.9. Liner schedules on the lane quote 15 to 32 days port to port, because the services call at other ports and some transship. Over the last 30 days we counted 21 sailings by 2 carriers (CMA CGM and OOCL).

570 nm of the route, 10% of it, lies inside North American 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 CAVAN start at $5,777 for a 20GP and $7,500 for a 40GP. These are spot market prices from carriers that sail the lane; your quote will also include terminal handling, documentation and any bunker surcharge. At Vancouver (CAVAN) 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, Vancouver is the 29th shortest. Closer destinations include Seattle (5,571 nm), Djibouti (5,447 nm) and Jebel Ali (5,172 nm).