Transportation in India
[Note: This information derives primarily from the 1995 edition of
the CIA World
Factbook.]
Railroads:
- total: 62,211 km (6,500 km electrified; 12,617 km double track)
- broad gauge: 34,544 km 1.676-m gauge
- narrow gauge: 23,599 km 1.000-m gauge; 4,068 km 0.762-m and 0.610-m
gauge (1994 est.)
Highways
- total: 1.97 million km
- paved: 960,000 km
- unpaved: gravel, crushed stone, earth 1.01 million km (1989)
Inland waterways
- 16,180 km
- 3,631 km navigable by large vessels
Pipelines (1989)
- crude oil 3,497 km
- petroleum products 1,703 km
- natural gas 902 km
Merchant Marine
- Ports: Bombay, Calcutta, Cochin, Haldia, Kandla, Madras,
Mormugao, New Mangalore, Pondicherry, Port Blair (Andaman Islands),
Tuticorin, Vishakhapatnam
- ships: 299 (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 6,288,902 GRT/10,454,178
DWT
- ships by type:
bulk 114, cargo 78, chemical tanker 9, combination bulk 2, combination
ore/oil 5, container 10, liquefied gas tanker 6, oil tanker 68,
passenger-cargo
5, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1, short-sea passenger 1
Airports
- total: 352
- with paved runways over 3,047 m: 11
- with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 48
- with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 85
- with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 72
- with paved runways under 914 m: 81
- with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
- with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 7
- with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 46
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