Transportation Syria - Syria Transportation

Airports:
90 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 26
over 3,047 m: 6
2,438 to 3,047 m: 15
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 2 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 64
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 11
under 914 m: 52 (2007)

Heliports:
7 (2007)

Pipelines:
gas 2,764 km; oil 2,000 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 2,711 km
standard gauge: 2,460 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 251 km 1.050-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:
total: 94,890 km
paved: 19,073 km
unpaved: 75,817 km (2004)

Waterways:
900 km (not economically significant) (2005)

Merchant marine:
total: 96 ships (1000 GRT or over) 353,351 GRT/512,597 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 7, cargo 82, container 1, livestock carrier 4, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll off 1
foreign-owned: 10 (Jordan 2, Lebanon 4, Romania 4)
registered in other countries: 164 (Bolivia 1, Cambodia 32, Comoros 8, Cyprus 2, Dominica 2, Georgia 54, Hong Kong 1, North Korea 7, Lebanon 1, Libya 1, Malta 4, Mongolia 1, Panama 24, Sierra Leone 8, Slovakia 2, St Kitts and Nevis 5, St Vincent and The Grenadines 11, unknown 2) (2007)

Ports and terminals:
Latakia, Tartus

NOTE: The information regarding Syria 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 Syria Transportation 2008 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Syria Transportation 2008 should be addressed to the CIA.