Port Klang to Los Angeles shipping route.

The shipping route from Port Klang, Malaysia to Los Angeles, United States covers 8,056 nautical miles port to port, on a direct course. On a globe the two ports sit 14,190 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 24.0 days at sea. Slow steaming at 12 knots stretches it to 28.0 days, while 18 knots brings it down to 18.6. Liner schedules on the lane quote 23 to 34 days port to port, because the services call at other ports and some transship. Over the last 30 days we counted 13 sailings by 3 carriers (CMA CGM, COSCO and Maersk).

683 nm of the route, 8% 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 MYPKG to USLAX start at $4,551 for a 20GP and $6,470 for a 40GP ($6,520 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 Los Angeles (USLAX) carriers give about 4 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 Port Klang in this directory, Los Angeles is the 44th shortest. Closer destinations include Le Havre (7,998 nm), Oakland (7,722 nm) and Vancouver (7,472 nm).