More than 93.34 million inbound and outbound passenger trips had been recorded through the Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge as of Wednesday, seven years after the bridge opened to traffic.

The 55-kilometer bridge linking Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region and the city of Zhuhai, all in south China, opened to traffic on October 23, 2018. It is the world's longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing.

According to the bridge's border inspection station, they handled 12.88 million passenger trips and 860,000 vehicle trips in 2019. These numbers rose to 27 million and 5.55 million respectively in 2024. So far this year, the numbers have exceeded 25.1 million and 5.46 million respectively, up 17 and 25 percent year on year.

Expansion of individual travel from the mainland to Hong Kong and Macao has significantly boosted tourism across the bridge. Data from the inspection station showed that since the beginning of this year, the station has handled more than 10.15 million visitors from China's mainland, a record high. This figure includes 4.6 million visitors holding tavel pass.

Meanwhile, the bridge has cut a previously three-hour drive from Hong Kong to Zhuhai and Macao down to about 45 minutes. In 2023, the Zhuhai port had seen a daily vehicle flow of roughly 9,000, which has grown to more than 18,000 currently.