Lagos (Apapa) to Gothenburg shipping route.

The shipping route from Lagos (Apapa), Nigeria to Gothenburg, Sweden covers 4,694 nautical miles port to port, on a direct course. On a globe the two ports sit 5,749 km apart, so the ship sails 1.51 times the straight line distance. No canals on this leg, the extra miles come from sailing around headlands and islands.

At sea, the voyage lasts 16.3 days at 12 knots, 14.0 days at 14 knots and 10.9 days at 18 knots. 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 Lagos (Apapa) and Gothenburg to plan the full ocean transit time.

854 nm of the route, 18% of it, lies inside 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 Lagos (Apapa) to Gothenburg move with fuel prices, ship capacity and the season. Compare several carriers before booking: the cheapest sailing is often the slowest one. At Gothenburg (SEGOT) carriers give about 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 Lagos (Apapa) in this directory, Gothenburg is the 18th shortest. Closer destinations include Piraeus (4,616 nm), Buenos Aires (4,563 nm) and Hamburg (4,515 nm).