The import and export value of goods recorded through the Zhuhai port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has exceeded 1.24 trillion yuan (about 174 billion U.S. dollars) since the bridge opened seven years ago, data from Gongbei Customs in south China's Guangdong Province showed.
In the first nine months of this year, the value of import and export goods recorded through the port hit 228.88 billion yuan, up 37 percent year-on-year.
The port also logged 18.93 million vehicle crossings as of September 2025.
The 55-kilometer bridge linking the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and the city of Zhuhai opened to traffic on October 23, 2018. It is the world's longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing.
Over the past seven years, the cross-border e-commerce parcels through the bridge have surged rapidly as parcels from across the country can reach destinations globally via the port of the bridge.
"Nearly 500 trucks loaded with online shopping parcels pass through here every day, carrying over 1.6 million parcels destined for more than 130 countries and regions across the world," said Gong Zhongnian, head of the fourth supervision division at the bridge's customs office under Gongbei Customs.
At the bridge's cross-border E-commerce export inspection platform, hundreds of thousands of parcels are scanned daily by high-speed X-ray machines, with each parcel cleared in an average of six seconds through non-intrusive inspection.
In the first nine months of 2025, e-commerce exports processed through the digital customs platform for the bridge exceeded 76.46 billion yuan, a 99.2-percent year-on-year increase, already surpassing the total for all of 2024.
Now, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge port has become China's second-largest hub for direct cross-border e-commerce exports.
"The port directly links with Hong Kong and Macao, and more than 100,000 cross-border e-commerce parcels are exported through the port every day. Customs authorities have introduced a series of measures to facilitate smooth, round-the-clock clearance. Such a stable and predictable clearance environment has hugely shortened time for logistics and boosted the confidence in expanding globally and handling larger volumes of business," said Cai Dongjue, head of customs operations at the logistics firm Cainiao Group.
The monthly trade through the bridge has surged more than fivefold since its opening, from 4.1 billion yuan in the initial period to 25.4 billion yuan now.
Exports of high-tech goods have been a standout, reaching 65.75 billion yuan in the first nine months of 2025, up 32.2 percent from a year earlier.
"We've carried out targeted supervision through credit-based management and have introduced measures such as simplified declarations, checklist-based clearance, statistics, and prioritized inspections, all aimed at helping e-commerce businesses expand globally," said Jiang Haiyan, head of the bridge's customs office under Gongbei Customs.
Trade with Belt and Road partner countries through the bridge came in at 68.19 billion yuan in the January-September period of this year, up 52.6 percent year on year, making the port a key gateway for China's economic and trade cooperation with Belt and Road countries.
Zhuhai port of Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge logs 1.24 trillion yuan worth of goods in seven years
