By Ship

Zhuhai is an important harbor city along the southern coast of China. With such excellent condition of many islands and ports, it is called 'City of a Hundred Islands' and enjoys developed water carriage, facilitating the transportation of both cargoes and passengers. The following is information on the three main passenger ports:

Jiuzhou Port
Focusing on enormous passenger transport, Jiuzhou Port is a sea transport hub of south China and even the Asia-Pacific Region. It has direct sea routes every day to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and many other ports within or without Guangdong Province. Now, ships have become the fastest and most convenient vehicle for traveling between Zhuhai and Hong Kong or Shenzhen. It takes just an hour or so from Zhuhai to these two cities.

Ships from Hong Kong to Jiuzhou Port depart every one hour between 7:30 and 21:30. It takes about one hour and ten minutes and costs HKD 165 (about CNY 161) per person for the tourist class, HKD 175 (about CNY 171) per person for the first-class cabin, and HKD 205 (about CNY 201) per person for the VIP cabin. The return ships from Jiuzhou Port to Hong Kong operate between 8:00 and 21:30 at an interval of about one hour. The charge is CNY 150 per person for the tourist class, CNY 160 per person for the first-class cabin, and CNY 190 per person for the VIP cabin.

Passenger ships between Jiuzhou Port of Zhuhai and Shekou Port of Shenzhen depart every half an hour during the operating time every day. The ships operate from 7:30 to 18:00 in Shenzhen Shekou Port while from 8:00 to 18:00 in Zhuhai Jiuzhou Port. The operating time extends to 18:30 between April 1 and August 31 however shortens to 17:30 from October 16 to January 15 the next year. The whole journey takes about one hour and costs CNY 70 per person.

Address: No.599, South Qinglu Road, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai
Bus Routes: 3, 4, 12, 23, 25, 26, 99, Sightseeing Bus 02

Doumen Port
This is another important passenger port of Zhuhai, operating a sea route to Hong Kong. A passenger ship from Hong Kong to Doumen departs every day at 8:35 and makes the return voyage to Hong Kong at 16:30. The whole journey takes less than two hours and costs HKD 160 (about CNY 156) per person from Hong Kong to Zhuhai while CNY 138 per person from Zhuhai to Hong Kong.

Address: Baijiao Town, Doumen District, Zhuhai
Bus Route: 304

Wanzai Port
Wanzai Port provides a sea route to the adjacent Macao. Ships between Wanzai Port and the No.16 Yuetong Port of Macao depart from both sides about eight times between 8:30 and 16:30. The journey takes only ten minutes and costs HKD 12 (about CNY 11.7) per person from Macao to Zhuhai while CNY 15 per person from Zhuhai to Macao.

Address: South Nanwan Road, Wanzai, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai
Bus Routes: 5, 14, 30, 60

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