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Railwaystotal: 2,600 km (2014)

standard gauge: 178 km 1.435-m gauge; 253 km mixed gauge (2014)

narrow gauge: 2,169 km 1.000-m gauge (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 195,468 km (2013)

paved: 148,338 km (2013)

unpaved: 47,130 km (2013)
Waterways47,130 km (30,831 km weight under 50 tons) (2011)
Pipelines72 km condensate, 398 km condensate/gas, 955 km gas, 128 km oil, 33 km oil/gas/water, 206 km refined products, 13 km water (2013)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Cam Pha Port, Da Nang, Haiphong, Phu My, Quy Nhon

container port(s) (TEUs): Saigon (7,220,377), Cai Mep (3,742,384), Haiphong (5,133,150) (2019)

river port(s): Ho Chi Minh (Mekong)
Merchant marinetotal: 1,909

by type: bulk carrier 102, container ship 40, general cargo 1,196, oil tanker 121, other 450 (2020)
Airportstotal: 45 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 38 (2013)

over 3,047 m: 10 (2013)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 6 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 13 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 9 (2013)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 7 (2013)

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

914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2013)

under 914 m: 3 (2013)
Heliports1 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 5 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 224

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 47,049,671 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 481.37 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixVN

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

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