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Kuwait Transportation Profile

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Roadwaystotal: 5,749 km (2018)

paved: 4,887 km (2018)

unpaved: 862 km (2018)
Pipelines261 km gas, 540 km oil, 57 km refined products (2013)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina' 'Abd Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi
Merchant marinetotal: 159

by type: general cargo 15, oil tanker 24, other 120 (2020)
Airportstotal: 7 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 4 (2019)

over 3,047 m: 1

2,438 to 3,047 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 1
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 3 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013)

under 914 m: 2 (2013)
Heliports4 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 2 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 44

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 6,464,847 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 392.36 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix9K

Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021

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