
The first ferry traffic line starts at the estuary of Han river of Hankou to Hanyang Gate of Wuchang.

Ferry terminal of Hanyang Gate nowadays
 
                                         
                                        
During the buzzing time, most of the vessels are wooden boats, no matter for passenger or freight

In an early evening of summer, eating and watching others swimming at the embankment
 
                                         
                                        
Jianghan Customs House is com-parable to the lighthouse for the passengers and shipping people

The Customs House has been overwhelmed by skyscrapers, but the port is still used for ferry traffic.
 
                                         
                                        
The Longwang Miao port was very busy for both freight and passengers traffic

The port is not busy any more.Espe-cially since the Hanzhengjie Market moved out, the freight and passen-ger traffic declined sharply. The river-sides become to a park.
 
                                         
                                        
Most of the ports were built and occupied by foreign companies.

Now the state-owned ports for passengers and freight lie as an array
 
                                         
                                        
The wharfboat and passengers at the Hanyang Gate port in Wuchang

Passengers are getting off the ferry boat at the Longwang Miao port in Hankou
 
                                         
                                        
One of the busiest ferry port in the past or now

There were 160 million passen-gers delivered by the ferry traffic per year in the period of great prosperity
 
                                         
                                        
过去货运和客运都非常繁忙的汉口龙王庙码头

码头不再繁忙,尤其是汉正街的小商品市场迁出中心城区,码头的货运和客运量骤减。江边变成了公园。