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- <text id=94CT0052><title>Antigua and Barbuda—Communications</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Antigua and Barbuda<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> 64 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge and 13 km 0.610-meter gauge used almost exclusively for handling sugarcane
- <item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 240 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> NA
- <item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> NA
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Saint John's
- <item><hi format=bold>Merchant marine:</hi> 227 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 849,699 GRT/1,218,492 DWT, bulk 4, cargo 156, chemical tanker 11, container 37, liquified gas 2, oil tanker 2, refrigerated cargo 4, roll-on/roll-off cargo 11
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> a flag of convenience registry
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- <item><hi format=bold>Airports:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 3
- <item>• <hi format=ital>usable:</hi> 3
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with permanent-surface runways:</hi> 2
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 3,659 m:</hi> 0
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 2,440-3,659 m:</hi> 1
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 1,220-2,439 m:</hi> 0
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- <item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> good automatic telephone system; 6,700 telephones; tropospheric scatter links with Saba and Guadeloupe; broadcast stations—4 AM, 2 FM, 2 TV, 2 shortwave; 1 coaxial submarine cable; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
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