The annual number of inbound and outbound passenger trips through the Zhuhai Port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has exceeded 20 million for the first time by Friday, the fourth day of the ongoing week-long National Day holiday season.
That represents a year-on-year growth of 86 percent, and the October number this year has surpassed the total number in 2023, according to data from the bridge's border inspection station.
Opened to public traffic in October 2018, the 55-km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is the world's longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing.
The bridge links China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), the city of Zhuhai in the southern Guangdong Province, and the Macao SAR. It has brought tremendous opportunities and benefits to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area city cluster in south China.
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge handles over 20 million passenger trips annually for first time
A closed-door preliminary hearing was held on Wednesday at the Moscow Arbitration Court in a lawsuit filed by the Bank of Russia against Euroclear over the frozen Russian assets.
The case marks the latest legal move by Russia's central bank to recover assets frozen in Europe, with the entire pretrial session conducted behind closed doors after the plaintiff requested confidentiality, citing the involvement of banking and state secrets.
In the next stage of the case, a substantive hearing scheduled for April 10, will also be held closed-door, according to the court. Russian experts say a favorable ruling in domestic courts could lay the groundwork for further legal action at the international level.
The Bank of Russia has indicated that it is considering pursuing its claims through international courts and arbitration bodies and will seek recognition and enforcement of any rulings in member states of the United Nations.
In December 2025, the Council of the European Union announced a decision to freeze Russian assets within the bloc indefinitely. Following the move, the Russian central bank filed a lawsuit with the Moscow Arbitration Court, seeking more than 18 trillion rubles (about 231 billion U.S. dollars) in compensation from Euroclear, which holds a substantial portion of the frozen funds.
Russia holds closed-door hearing over frozen asset in Moscow
