Yantian to Seattle shipping route.

Yantian to Seattle is a 5,821 nautical mile shipping route on a direct course, heading north east from China to the United States. That is 10,781 km of water against 10,383 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 17.3 days at sea. Slow steaming at 12 knots stretches it to 20.2 days, while 18 knots brings it down to 13.5. Liner schedules on the lane quote 19 to 27 days port to port, because the services call at other ports and some transship. Over the last 30 days we counted 66 sailings by 5 carriers (CMA CGM, COSCO, Evergreen, MSC and OOCL).

548 nm of the route, 9% 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 CNYTN to USSEA start at $5,791 for a 20GP and $8,296 for a 40GP ($8,046 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 Seattle (USSEA) carriers give about 3.94 free days before demurrage and detention charges start, so plan the truck or rail pickup before the box lands.

Of the 63 port to port routes from Yantian in this directory, Seattle is the 28th shortest. Closer destinations include Mombasa (5,580 nm), Auckland (5,266 nm) and Djibouti (5,232 nm).