Jamaican Transportation, Jamaica Transportation
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Railways: Total: 272 km standard gauge: 272 km 1.435-m gauge note: 207 of these km belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation had been in common carrier service until 1992 but are no longer operational; 57 km of the remaining track is privately owned and used by ALCAN to transport bauxite (2003)
Highways: Total: 18,700 km paved: 13,109 km unpaved: 5,591 km (1999 est.)
Waterways:
Pipelines:
Ports and harbors: Kingston, Port Esquivel, Port Kaiser, Port Rhoades, Rocky Point
Merchant marine: Total: 9 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 74,881 GRT/100,682 DWT by type: bulk carrier 5, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll off 3 foreign-owned: 8 (Germany 2, Greece 5, UAE 1) (2005)
Airports: 35 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: Total: 11 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 5 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways: Total: 24 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 22 (2004 est.)
Heliports:
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The information here has been derived from Public Domain Sources such as the CIA World Factbook. No liability can be taken for any inaccuracies.
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Jamaica gained full independence within the British Commonwealth in 1962. Deteriorating economic conditions during the 1970s led to recurrent violence and a drop off in tourism. Elections in 1980 saw the democratic socialists voted out of office. Pol...