Neptune Atlas
Fujairah to Rotterdam by sea: 6,111 nautical miles
Fujairah to Rotterdam by sea is 6,111 nautical miles (11,318 km) through the Suez Canal. Without the Suez Canal it is 10,833 nautical miles round the Cape of Good Hope, 4,722 longer. The route also passes Bab el-Mandeb, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Strait of Dover. The distance is the same in both directions, so this is also the distance from Rotterdam to Fujairah. Ships on this route often carry oil products.
| Route | Nautical miles | Days at sea at | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 knots | 12 knots | 14 knots | 16 knots | ||
| Through the Suez Canal | 6,111 | 25.5 | 21.2 | 18.2 | 15.9 |
| Round the Cape of Good Hope, without the Suez Canal | 10,833 | 45.1 | 37.6 | 32.2 | 28.2 |
Days are time under way at a steady speed. They leave out waiting, time in port and bad weather. The Suez Canal adds about 1.25 days for the transit and the wait.
Without the Suez Canal the voyage is 4,722 nm longer, which is 16.4 more days at sea at 12 knots. It is the dashed line on the map.
- Canals
- Suez Canal
- Canal time
- 1.25 days
- Inside emission areas
- 2,442 nm
- Straight line
- 2,835 nm
Emission control areas
2,442 nm of this route, 40 per cent, is inside an emission control area (ECA): North Sea and English Channel, 476 nm and Mediterranean Sea, 1,966 nm. 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
- Fujairah, United Arab Emirates (listed as Al Fujayrah). UN/LOCODE AEFJR, at 25.12 N, 56.33 E.
- Rotterdam, Netherlands. UN/LOCODE NLRTM, at 51.92 N, 4.50 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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Related routes
Other routes at Fujairah
- Fujairah to Singapore3,313 nm
Other routes at Rotterdam
- Guayaquil to Rotterdam5,706 nm
- Houston to Rotterdam5,054 nm
- Jebel Ali to Rotterdam6,294 nm
- Karachi to Rotterdam6,234 nm
- New Orleans to Rotterdam4,806 nm
- Nhava Sheva to Rotterdam6,428 nm
- Norfolk to Rotterdam3,575 nm
- Puerto Bolivar to Rotterdam4,611 nm
Guides that go with this route
- Emission control areas: where they are and what fuel a ship must burn inside them.
- Bunkers and fuel grades: what a ship burns on a passage like this one.
- War risk areas: the listed areas and what a transit through one costs.