Santos to Gdansk shipping route.

Santos to Gdansk is a 6,325 nautical mile shipping route on a direct course, heading north east from Brazil to Poland. That is 11,714 km of water against 10,681 km as the crow flies. 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 18.8 days at sea. Slow steaming at 12 knots stretches it to 22.0 days, while 18 knots brings it down to 14.6. 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 Santos and Gdansk to plan the full ocean transit time.

1,250 nm of the route, 20% 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 Santos to Gdansk move with fuel prices, ship capacity and the season. Compare several carriers before booking: the cheapest sailing is often the slowest one. At Gdansk (PLGDN) carriers give about 7.5 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 Santos in this directory, Gdansk is the 29th shortest. Closer destinations include Manzanillo (6,284 nm), Mombasa (5,979 nm) and Gothenburg (5,929 nm).