2025-05-08 Ecns.cn Editor：Mo Honge
Photo shows an international passenger ship travelling in Heilongjiang. (Photo courtesy of Hong Feng)
(ECNS) — International passenger ships resumed operations between China’s Heihe Port and Russia’s Blagoveshchensk Port on Wednesday.
Compared to the hovercraft service period, the passenger ship capacity has risen threefold in the number of travelers crossing the China-Russia border.
On the first day of operations, China and Russia each deployed one passenger ship, with a capacity of 240 passengers per vessel, 10 times that of a hovercraft.
Currently, outbound Chinese tourists are mainly made up of senior tour…