Page last updated on June 23, 2014

Airports:
61 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 80
[see also: Airports country ranks ]

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 6
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 55
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 20
914 to 1,523 m: 23
under 914 m:
6 (2013)

Roadways:
total: 22,100 km
country comparison to the world: 105
paved: 2,608 km
unpaved: 19,492 km (2000)
[see also: Roadways country ranks ]

Merchant marine:
total: 1
country comparison to the world: 148
by type: cargo 1 (2008)
[see also: Merchant marine country ranks ]

Ports and terminals:
major seaport(s): Berbera, Kismaayo

Transportation - note:
despite a dramatic drop in the number of attacks in 2012, the International Maritime Bureau continues to report the territorial and offshore waters in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean as a region of significant risk for piracy and armed robbery against ships accounting for 25% of all attacks in 2012; 75 vessels, including commercial shipping and pleasure craft, were attacked or hijacked both at anchor and while underway compared with 237 in 2011; the number of hijackings off the coast of Somalia was reduced to 14 in 2012, down from 28 in 2011; as of April 2013, 77 vessels and 7 hostages were being held for ransom by Somali pirates; the presence of several naval task forces in the Gulf of Aden and additional anti-piracy measures on the part of ship operators, including the use of on-board armed security teams, have reduced piracy incidents in that body of water; in response Somali-based pirates, using hijacked fishing trawlers as "mother ships" to extend their range, shifted operations as far south as the Mozambique Channel, eastward to the vicinity of the Maldives, and northeastward to the Strait of Hormuz