Laos' Transportation | Lao or Laotian Transportation

Railways:

Highways: total: 21,716 km paved: 9,664 km unpaved: 12,052 km (1999 est.)

Waterways: 4,600 km note: primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,897 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m (2003)

Pipelines: refined products 540 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:

Merchant marine: total: 1 ship (1,000 GRT or over) 2,370 GRT/3,110 DWT by type: cargo 1 (2005)

Airports: 44 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 9 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 35 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 13 under 914 m: 21 (2004 est.)

Heliports:



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