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Introduction - Ireland: | Location - Ireland: | People - Ireland: | Government - Ireland: | Economy - Ireland: | Communications - Ireland: | Transportation - Ireland: | Airports | 36 (2006) | | Airports with paved runways | total: 15
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 6 (2006) | | Airports with unpaved runways | total: 21
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 17 (2006) | | Pipelines | gas 1,728 km (2006) | | Railways | total: 3,237 km
broad gauge: 1,872 km 1.600-m gauge (37 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish Peat Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting plants) (2006) | | Roadways | total: 96,602 km
paved: 96,602 km (includes 200 km of expressways) (2003) | | Waterways | 956 km (pleasure craft only) (2007) | | Merchant marine | total: 23 ships (1000 GRT or over) 103,589 GRT/145,044 DWT
by type: cargo 19, chemical tanker 2, container 1, roll on/roll off 1
foreign-owned: 4 (Germany 2, US 2)
registered in other countries: 21 (Bahamas 2, Bermuda 1, Cyprus 3, Gibraltar 1, Netherlands 10, Panama 2, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1, UK 1) (2006) | | Ports and terminals | Cork, Dublin, New Ross, Shannon Foynes, Waterford | |
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This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |