TRANSPORTATION
Roads:
Highways:
- total: 117,000 km
- paved: 107,406 km (including 1030 km of expressways - early 2006 estimation)
- unpaved: 9,594 km (1996 est.)
Railroads:
Railways:
- total: 2,571 km (764 km are or will be electrified)
- standard gauge: 1,565 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge: 961 km 1.000-m gauge; 22 km 0.750-m gauge
- dual gauge: 23 km combined 1.435 m and 1.000-m gauges (three rail system) (2004)
- cities with underground railway system: Athens, Thessaloniki (Under construction)
Light rail and Tramway:
- Athens Mass Transit System
Waterways:
The 80 km system consists of three coastal canals including the Corinth Canal(6 km) and three unconnected rivers. The Corinth Canal crosses the Isthmus of Corinth connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf and shortens the sea voyage from the Adriatic to Peiraiefs (Piraeus) by 325 km.
Ports and harbors:
- Alexandroupoli
- Elefsina
- Irakleio, Crete
- Kavala
- Kerkyra
- Chalkis
- Igoumenitsa
- Lavrio
- Patras
- Piraeus
- Thessaloniki
- Volos
- Mytilene
- Rhodes
Merchant Marine:
- total: 3338 ships (with a volume of 1,000 gross register tons (GRT) or over) totaling 109,377,819 GRT/182,540,868 metric tons deadweight (DWT)
- ships by type (1999 est.)
- bulk carrier: 273
- cargo ship: 60
- chemical tanker: 22
- combination bulk: 5
- combination ore/oil: 8
- container ship: 43
- Liquified Gas Carrier: 5
- multi-functional large load carrier: 1
- passenger ship: 12
- passenger/cargo: 2
- petroleum tanker: 245
- refrigerated cargo: 3
- roll-on/roll-off ship: 19
- short-sea passenger: 75
- specialized tanker: 4
- vehicle carrier: 2
Aviation:
Airports:
- total: 82 (2005)
- With paved runways:9000129
- over 3,047 m: 5
- 2,438 to 3,047 m: 16
- 1,524 to 2,437 m: 19
- 914 to 1,523 m: 17
- under 914 m: 10 (2005)
- With unpaved runways: 15
- 914 to 1,523 m: 3
- under 914 m: 12 (2005)
- heliports: 8 (2005)
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