Vancouver to Ho Chi Minh City shipping route.

Vancouver to Ho Chi Minh City is a 6,704 nautical mile shipping route on a direct course, heading north west from Canada to Vietnam. That is 12,417 km of water against 11,754 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 20.0 days at sea. Slow steaming at 12 knots stretches it to 23.3 days, while 18 knots brings it down to 15.5. Liner schedules on the lane quote 19 to 39 days port to port, because the services call at other ports and some transship. Over the last 30 days we counted 8 sailings by 3 carriers (HMM, Maersk and OOCL).

570 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 CAVAN to VNSGN start at $4,519 for a 20GP and $6,555 for a 40GP ($6,605 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 Ho Chi Minh City (VNSGN) 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 Vancouver in this directory, Ho Chi Minh City is the 26th shortest. Closer destinations include Haiphong (6,375 nm), Auckland (6,359 nm) and New York (6,234 nm).