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Railwaystotal: 3,075 km (2014)

narrow gauge: 108.1 km 1.000-m gauge (2014)

broad gauge: 2,439 km 1.668-m gauge (1,633.4 km electrified) (2014)

other: 528 km (gauge unspecified) (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 82,900 km (2008)

paved: 71,294 km (includes 2,613 km of expressways) (2008)

unpaved: 11,606 km (2008)
Waterways210 km (on Douro River from Porto) (2011)
Pipelines1344 km gas, 11 km oil, 188 km refined products (2013)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Leixoes, Lisbon, Setubal, Sines

container port(s) (TEUs): Sines (1,420,000) (2019)

LNG terminal(s) (import): Sines
Merchant marinetotal: 673

by type: bulk carrier 74, container ship 255, general cargo 122, oil tanker 23, other 199 (2020)
Airportstotal: 64 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 43 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 5 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 7 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 8 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 15 (2017)

under 914 m: 8 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 21 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2013)

under 914 m: 20 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 10 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 168

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 17,367,956 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 454.21 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixCR, CS

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

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