London Gateway to Valencia shipping route.

London Gateway to Valencia is a 1,719 nautical mile shipping route on a direct course, heading south from the United Kingdom to Spain. That is 3,183 km of water against 1,343 km as the crow flies. On the way the vessel passes Strait of Gibraltar.

Shipping time depends on speed. At 14 knots, a common container ship service speed, the passage takes 5.1 days at sea. Slow steaming at 12 knots stretches it to 6.0 days, while 18 knots brings it down to 4.0. 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 London Gateway and Valencia to plan the full ocean transit time.

767 nm of the route, 45% of it, lies inside North Sea 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.

Container freight rates on London Gateway to Valencia move with fuel prices, ship capacity and the season. Compare several carriers before booking: the cheapest sailing is often the slowest one. At Valencia (ESVLC) carriers give about 6 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 London Gateway in this directory, Valencia is the 6th shortest. Closer destinations include Algeciras (1,335 nm), Gdansk (973 nm) and Gothenburg (577 nm).