Port-to-port route
Shipping from Shanghai to Hamburg
Port of Shanghai, China → Port of Hamburg, Germany
Ocean freight from the Port of Shanghai to the Port of Hamburg is one of the busiest port-to-port routes tracked on bexy, with 23,812 shipments on record loaded at Shanghai and discharged at Hamburg. Planned port-to-port transit from Shanghai to Hamburg has a median of 45 days (middle half 43–50 days, 90% within 63 days), an estimate measured from the loaded-on-board date at Shanghai to the first planned arrival at Hamburg in the carrier's routing, across 505 shipments.
- Shipments tracked
- 23,812
- Median planned port-to-port
- 45 days
- Median actual transit
- 53 days
- Planned via a hub
- 6%
Planned port-to-port transit · Shanghai → Hamburg
45days median
- Middle half
- 43–50 days
- 90% within
- 63 days
- Shipments
- 505
From the loaded-on-board date at Shanghai to the first planned arrival at Hamburg in the carrier's routing — the carrier's planned dates, port to port, with no inland leg; spans over 120 days are left out. The middle half runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile.
Actual transit (from carrier discharge events)
53days median
Middle half 48–59 days · 90% within 66 days · n = 273 shipments with a recorded discharge
Loaded on board at Shanghai → container discharged at Hamburg, from the carrier's container events: actual dates, not estimates, for only the shipments whose discharge is on record — most Bills of Lading are read after the container has been returned empty.
Schedule slip vs plan
+1day median · after the planned arrival
Middle half −2 to +2 days · n = 32 shipments with both a planned arrival and a recorded discharge on this route, across 11 sailings
Per shipment, the day a container was discharged at the port of discharge minus the carrier's first planned arrival there — whole days, exact to within a day either way; negative means ahead of plan. Each shipment is measured against its own plan, so it is a plain count, not weighted by volume. A sailing is one vessel voyage: every container on a late vessel is late together, so the slip is shown only when its shipments came on at least 5 sailings.
Shanghai to Hamburg ocean freight
Measured from the carrier's container events instead of its estimates, the actual transit from Shanghai to Hamburg — loaded on board to a container discharged at the port of discharge, with no inland leg — has a median of 53 days (middle half 48–59 days, 90% within 66 days) across 273 shipments with a recorded discharge at the port of discharge.
In the carrier's planned routing at the time bexy read each Bill of Lading, 6% of the 505 Shanghai-to-Hamburg shipments with a planned routing to the port of discharge were planned via at least one transshipment port, most often Rotterdam; the rest were planned direct from the port of loading to the port of discharge. A transshipment port here is a planned stop between those two ports that is not the place of receipt or delivery, and routings can change after booking.
By place of receipt and delivery, this cargo travels mostly on the China to Germany, China to Hungary and China to Poland trade lanes.
Track an Evergreen (EGLV) shipment from Shanghai to Hamburg by its Bill of Lading or container number on bexy for the vessel, voyage, port milestones and container status — free, with no account needed.
Trade lanes on this route
By place of receipt and delivery; the count is this route's shipments on each lane.
Planned routing: 6% of 505 shipments with a planned routing to Hamburg are planned via a transshipment port, most often Rotterdam (32); the rest are planned direct. This is the carrier's planned routing when bexy read each Bill of Lading, and it can change after booking.
Recent shipments · Shanghai → Hamburg
- EITU9281535 · Shanghai → Hamburg
- EGSU2425844 · Shanghai → Hamburg
- TXGU5566030 · Shanghai → Hamburg5×
- TIIU4631610 · Shanghai → Hamburg
- TGBU6992758 · Shanghai → Hamburg
- EITU0473310 · Shanghai → Hamburg11×
- EITU9147399 · Shanghai → Hamburg2×
- EISU8271816 · Shanghai → Hamburg4×
- EGSU3698210 · Shanghai → Hamburg
- BSIU9961074 · Shanghai → Hamburg
- EGSU9466737 · Shanghai → Hamburg15×
- EGSU3346288 · Shanghai → Hamburg2×
Frequently asked questions
- How long does it take to ship from Shanghai to Hamburg?
- Planned port-to-port transit from Shanghai to Hamburg has a median of 45 days (middle half 43–50 days, 90% within 63 days), an estimate measured from the loaded-on-board date at Shanghai to the first planned arrival at Hamburg in the carrier's routing, across 505 shipments. These are the carrier's planned dates, port to port; any inland leg after discharge at Hamburg adds time.
- How long does shipping from Shanghai to Hamburg actually take?
- Actual transit from Shanghai to Hamburg, from the carrier's container discharge events, has a median of 53 days (middle half 48–59 days, 90% within 66 days), measured from the loaded-on-board date at Shanghai to the day a container was discharged at Hamburg, across 273 shipments with a recorded discharge at Hamburg. These are actual dates from the carrier's container events, not estimates, port to port, and any inland leg after discharge adds time. They cover only shipments whose discharge at Hamburg is on record: for most Bills of Lading bexy first reads the record after the container has been returned empty, when the discharge is no longer shown.
- Is cargo from Shanghai to Hamburg shipped direct or transshipped?
- In the carrier's planned routing at the time bexy read each Bill of Lading, 6% of the 505 Shanghai-to-Hamburg shipments with a planned routing to the port of discharge were planned via at least one transshipment port, most often Rotterdam; the rest were planned direct from the port of loading to the port of discharge. A transshipment port here is a planned stop between those two ports that is not the place of receipt or delivery, and routings can change after booking.
- Which trade lanes use the Shanghai to Hamburg route?
- By place of receipt and delivery, cargo loaded at Shanghai and discharged at Hamburg travels mostly on the China to Germany, China to Hungary and China to Poland trade lanes on bexy.
- How many shipments are tracked from Shanghai to Hamburg?
- bexy has 23,812 shipments on record loaded at Shanghai and discharged at Hamburg, the most recent departing Oct 14, 2026. These are the Evergreen (EGLV) shipments on record, not the ports' total throughput.
- How do I track a shipment from Shanghai to Hamburg?
- Enter the Evergreen (EGLV) Bill of Lading or container number on bexy to see the vessel and voyage, port milestones and estimated arrival — free, with no login required.
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Aggregated from 23,812 tracked Bills of Lading loaded at Shanghai and discharged at Hamburg · planned port-to-port transit over 505 shipments · actual transit to discharge over 273 shipments with a recorded discharge · schedule slip vs plan over 32 shipments with both dates, across 11 sailings · data refreshed Oct 19, 2026 · how these figures are built.
Cite this page
bexy, "Shanghai to Hamburg Shipping Time — Port to Port", data as of 2026-10-19, n = 23,812 tracked shipments. https://bexy.io/routes/shanghai-to-hamburgDefinitions, thresholds and limitations are on the methodology page.