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Balikpapan to Mundra by sea: 3,855 nautical miles

Balikpapan to Mundra by sea is 3,855 nautical miles (7,139 km), with no canal on the way. The distance is the same in both directions, so this is also the distance from Mundra to Balikpapan. Ships on this route often carry coal.

RouteNautical milesDays at sea at
10 knots12 knots14 knots16 knots
Sea route3,85516.113.411.510.0

Days are time under way at a steady speed. They leave out waiting, time in port and bad weather.

Canals
None
Canal time
None
Inside emission areas
0 nm
Straight line
3,110 nm
BalikpapanMundra
Balikpapan to Mundra, as the Neptune Atlas sea router draws it.

Emission control areas

None of this route is inside an emission control area (ECA). An ECA is a sea area where a ship must burn fuel with no more than 0.10 per cent sulphur, or clean its exhaust. Either costs more than sailing on ordinary fuel.

The two ports

  • Balikpapan, Indonesia. UN/LOCODE IDBPN, at 1.28 S, 116.83 E.
  • Mundra, India. UN/LOCODE INMUN, at 22.84 N, 69.72 E.

A UN/LOCODE is the United Nations code for a port. The straight line above is the great circle, the shortest line over the globe, which crosses land.

How this was worked out

Computed on 13 October 2026 by the sea router behind the Neptune Atlas voyage estimator. It searches a grid of navigable water built from public sea depth data, so the track goes round headlands and through straits. No draft limit was set and no area was avoided. Distance tables differ by a few per cent, because each one picks its own point for a port and its own track through straits. Use it for planning, not in place of a chart.

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