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    Norway Transportation 1997

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    SOURCE: 1997 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

      Railways
      total: 4,027 km
      standard gauge: 4,027 km 1.435-m gauge (2422 km electrified; 96 km double track) (1995)

      Highways
      total: 90,261 km
      paved : 66,342 km (including 105 km of expressways)
      unpaved: 23,919 km (1995)

      Waterways 1,577 km along west coast; 2.4 m draft vessels maximum

      Pipelines refined products 53 km

      Ports and harbors Bergen, Drammen, Floro, Hammerfest, Harstad, Haugesund, Kristiansand,Larvik, Narvik, Oslo, Porsgrunn, Stavanger, Tromso, Trondheim

      Merchant marine
      total : 718 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 19,401,580 GRT/31,740,273 DWT
      ships by type: bulk 102, cargo 106, chemical tanker 83, combination bulk 9, combinationore/oil 33, container 16, liquefied gas tanker 87, multi-function large loadcarrier 1, oil tanker 148, passenger 14, passenger-cargo 1, railcar carrier1, refrigerated cargo 10, roll-on/roll-off cargo 49, short-sea passenger 24,vehicle carrier 34
      note: the government has created an internal register, the Norwegian InternationalShip register (NIS), as a subset of the Norwegian register; ships on the NISenjoy many benefits of flags of convenience and do not have to be crewed byNorwegians (1996 est.)

      Airports 102 (1996 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways
      total: 97
      over 3,047 m : 1
      2,438 to 3,047 m: 11
      1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
      914 to 1,523 m: 12
      under 914 m: 59 (1996 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways
      total : 5
      914 to 1,523 m: 5 (1996 est.)

      Heliports 1 (1996 est.)

      NOTE: The information regarding Norway on this page is re-published from the 1997 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Norway Transportation 1997 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Norway Transportation 1997 should be addressed to the CIA.

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