Transportation Tanzania - Tanzania Transportation

Airports:
124 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 10
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 114
1,524 to 2,437 m: 17
914 to 1,523 m: 63
under 914 m: 34 (2007)

Pipelines:
gas 254 km; oil 872 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 3,690 km
narrow gauge: 969 km 1.067-m gauge; 2,721 km 1.000-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:
total: 78,891 km
paved: 6,808 km
unpaved: 72,083 km (2003)

Waterways:
Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, and Lake Nyasa principal avenues of commerce with neighboring countries; rivers not navigable (2005)

Merchant marine:
total: 9 ships (1000 GRT or over) 24,801 GRT/31,507 DWT
by type: cargo 1, passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 4
registered in other countries: 2 (Honduras 1, St Kitts and Nevis 1) (2007)

Ports and terminals:
Dar es Salaam

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