Le Havre to Lagos (Apapa) shipping route.

Le Havre to Lagos (Apapa) is a 4,064 nautical mile shipping route on a direct course, heading south from France to Nigeria. That is 7,526 km of water against 4,795 km as the crow flies. No canals on this leg, the extra miles come from sailing around headlands and islands.

Pure steaming time is 12.1 days at 14 knots. A carrier that slow steams at 12 knots to save fuel needs 14.1 days, and a fast 18 knot string about 9.4. 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 Le Havre and Lagos (Apapa) to plan the full ocean transit time.

224 nm of the route, 6% of it, lies inside North 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 Le Havre to Lagos (Apapa) move with fuel prices, ship capacity and the season. Compare several carriers before booking: the cheapest sailing is often the slowest one. At Lagos (Apapa) (NGAPP) carriers give about 7 free days before demurrage and detention charges start, so plan the truck or rail pickup before the box lands.

Of the 61 port to port routes from Le Havre in this directory, Lagos (Apapa) is the 18th shortest. Closer destinations include Jeddah (3,826 nm), Savannah (3,672 nm) and Charleston (3,617 nm).