Transportation Laos - Laos Transportation

Airports:
42 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 9
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 33
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 9
under 914 m: 23 (2007)

Pipelines:
refined products 540 km (2006)

Roadways:
total: 31,210 km
paved: 4,494 km
unpaved: 26,716 km (2003)

Waterways:
4,600 km
note: primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,900 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m (2007)

Merchant marine:
total: 1 ship (1000 GRT or over) 2,370 GRT/3,110 DWT
by type: cargo 1 (2007)

NOTE: The information regarding Laos on this page is re-published from the 2008 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Laos Transportation 2008 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Laos Transportation 2008 should be addressed to the CIA.