El Salvador ocean freight by the numbers
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connecting 5 countries.
The fastest scheduled transit is 24 days, the median scheduled transit is 44 days, and 9 in 10 sampled sailings complete within 70 days.
0% of the 24 sampled sailings are direct; the remainder route via a transshipment hub.
The cargo cutoff falls a median of 7 days before departure, across 24 sampled sailings.
Figures describe 24 sailings sampled from 1 carrier API, last refreshed 16 October 2026.
Cutoff lead times in El Salvador
| Cutoff | Median days before departure | Sailings sampled |
|---|---|---|
| Cargo cutoff | 7 | 24 |
Most-sampled trade lanes from El Salvador
| Partner country | Lanes sampled |
|---|---|
| CN | 4 |
| DE | 1 |
| KR | 1 |
| NL | 1 |
| SG | 1 |
How these numbers are measured
Figures come from the ocean schedule APIs Shipzy integrates with: COSCO. They describe the lanes Shipzy samples, not every sailing serving El Salvador.
The nightly sync sweeps nine global hub ports plus a set of regional template lanes, storing up to three sailings per lane, and refreshes one country per night. So coverage leans towards intercontinental routings, and the as-of date above can be several weeks old for smaller markets.
Transit figures are medians rather than averages, so a few multi-transshipment routings cannot distort them. Cutoff lead times exclude carrier-estimated cutoffs and any lead outside a 0–21 day window. Emissions figures are not published here, because only one carrier reports measured CO2; the rest are modelled from transit time and would restate transit days as emissions.
- Port-to-port lanes: Derived from ocean schedules published by 1 carrier API, as of 16 October 2026.
- Countries connected: Derived from ocean schedules published by 1 carrier API, as of 16 October 2026.
- Fastest transit: Derived from ocean schedules published by 1 carrier API, as of 16 October 2026.
- Median transit: Median of 24 scheduled transit times. Median, not mean — a few multi-transshipment routings would distort an average.
- Direct sailings: Share of 24 sampled sailings with no transshipment. Carriers count legs slightly differently, so treat as indicative.
- Vessels seen: Derived from ocean schedules published by 1 carrier API, as of 16 October 2026. Counted by vessel name, so spelling variants may inflate this slightly.