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- Communications
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- Pipelines: crude oil 4,383 km; natural gas 1,947 km; petroleum
- products 443 km (includes liquid petroleum gas 256 km)
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- Ports: Tobruk, Tripoli, Banghazi, Misratah, Marsa al Burayqah,
- Ra's Lanuf
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- Merchant marine: 30 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 684,969
- GRT/1,209,084 DWT; includes 3 short-sea passenger, 11 cargo, 4
- roll-on/roll-off, 10 petroleum tanker, 1 chemical tanker, 1
- liquefied gas
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- Civil air: 59 major transport aircraft
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- Airports: 133 total, 120 usable; 53 with permanent-surface
- runways; 9 with runways over 3,659 m; 28 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 46 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
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- Telecommunications: modern telecommunications system using
- radio relay, coaxial cable, tropospheric scatter, and domestic
- satellite stations; 370,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 17
- AM, 3 FM, 12 TV; satellite earth stations - 1 Atlantic Ocean
- INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, and 14 domestic; submarine
- cables to France and Italy; radio relay to Tunisia and Egypt;
- tropospheric scatter to Greece; planned ARABSAT and
- Intersputnik satellite stations
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