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- <text id=94CT1018><title>Netherlands Antilles—Communications</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Netherlands Antilles<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 950 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 300 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> gravel, earth 650 km
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Willemstad, Philipsburg, Kralendijk
- <item><hi format=bold>Merchant marine:</hi> 113 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 966,797 GRT/1,251,871 DWT, bulk 1, cargo 43, chemical tanker 7, combination ore/oil 1, container 3, liquefied gas 5, multifunction large-load carrier 18, oil tanker 1, passenger 4, refrigerated cargo 23, roll-on/roll-off cargo 7
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> all but a few are foreign owned, mostly in the Netherlands
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- <item><hi format=bold>Airports:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 5
- <item>• <hi format=ital>usable:</hi> 4
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with permanent-surface runways:</hi> 4
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways over 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> 3
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- <item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> generally adequate facilities; extensive interisland microwave radio relay links; broadcast stations—9 AM, 4 FM, 1 TV; 2 submarine cables; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations
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