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Cairns to Port Moresby

2 operators run this water, from 240 h 00. Port Moresby has an airport 8 km from the quay, so this is a crossing you can make one way and fly the other.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Emerald Cruises Cairns → Port Moresby 841 km crossing 240 h 00 rate not held 4 km/h average
Air Niugini, Qantas CNS → POM 843 km non-stop DH4 in the air 3 h 03 est. rate not held 543 km/h average

Other ways to reach Port Moresby

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Port Moresby without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Benoa – Port Moresby 264 h 00 Emerald Cruises

And other ways to reach Cairns

Dunedin – Cairns 240 h 00 Ponant Cruises
Darwin – Cairns 264 h 00 Ponant Cruises, Scenic Cruises
Sydney – Cairns 264 h 00 Azamara Cruises, Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Lautoka – Cairns 312 h 00 Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Scenic Cruises
Benoa – Cairns 384 h 00 Ponant Cruises
Papeete – Cairns 624 h 00 Scenic Cruises
Fitzroy Island – Cairns not held Fitzroy Island Ferries
Green Island – Cairns not held Great Adventures
Kuranda – Cairns not held Kuranda Riverboat

Where else these quays go

Also from Cairns

Benoa · Darwin · Dunedin · Fitzroy Island · Green Island · Kuranda · Lautoka · Papeete · Sydney

Also from Port Moresby

Benoa

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Cairns–Port Moresby crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.