<item><hi format=bold>Inland waterways:</hi> 1,015 km; Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by maritime traffic for about 130 km; channel has been dredged to 3 meters and is in use; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft watercraft; Shatt al Basrah canal was navigable by shallow-draft craft before closing in 1991 because of the Persian Gulf war
<item><hi format=bold>Pipelines:</hi> crude oil 4,350 km; petroleum products 725 km; natural gas 1,360 km
<item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Umm Qasr reopened in November 1993; Khawr az Zubayr and Al Basrah have been closed since 1980
<item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> reconstitution of damaged telecommunication facilities began after Desert Storm, most damaged facilities have been rebuilt; the network consists of coaxial cables and microwave radio relay links; 632,000 telephones; broadcast stations—16 AM, 1 FM, 13 TV; satellite earth stations—1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Atlantic Ocean GORIZONT in the Intersputnik system and 1 ARABSAT; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey, Kuwait line is probably non-operational