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from: "Sleepy Little City of Legaspi" By TinNiE

Railways: total: 897 km narrow gauge: 897 km 1.067-m gauge (492 km are in operation) (2004)

Highways: total: 202,124 km paved: 19,202 km unpaved: 182,922 km (2002)

Waterways: 3,219 km note: limited to vessels with draft less than 1.5 m (2004)

Pipelines: gas 565 km; oil 135 km; refined products 100 km (2004)

Ports and harbors: Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iligan, Iloilo, Manila, Surigao

Merchant marine: total: 419 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 4,524,259 GRT/6,437,171 DWT by type: bulk carrier 85, cargo 109, chemical tanker 13, container 5, liquefied gas 7, livestock carrier 15, passenger 11, passenger/cargo 73, petroleum tanker 47, refrigerated cargo 23, roll on/roll off 17, vehicle carrier 14 foreign-owned: 69 (Canada 1, China 2, Germany 2, Greece 5, Hong Kong 2, Japan 31, Malaysia 2, Netherlands 20, Norway 1, UAE 1, United States 2) registered in other countries: 40 (2005)

Airports: 255 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 82 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 6 1,524 to 2,437 m: 26 914 to 1,523 m: 35 under 914 m: 11 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 173 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 68 under 914 m: 100 (2004 est.)

Heliports: 2 (2004 est.)

The information here has been derived from Public Domain Sources.

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