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<text id=94CT1418><title>Trinidad and Tobago—Communications</title> <article><source>CIA Factbook</source> <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Trinidad and Tobago<nl>Communications</hdr><body> <list> <item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> minimal agricultural railroad system near San Fernando <item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 8,000 km <item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 4,000 km <item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> improved earth 1,000 km; unimproved earth 3,000 km </list> <item><hi format=bold>Pipelines:</hi> crude oil 1,032 km; petroleum products 19 km; natural gas 904 km <item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Port-of-Spain, Pointe-a-Pierre, Scarborough <item><hi format=bold>Merchant marine:</hi> 2 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 12,507 GRT/21,923 DWT <item><hi format=bold>Airports:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 6 <item>• <hi format=ital>usable:</hi> 5 <item>• <hi format=ital>with permanent-surface runways:</hi> 2 <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways over 3,659 m:</hi> 0 <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 2,440-3,659 m:</hi> 2 <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 1,220-2,439 m:</hi> 1 </list> <item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> excellent international service via tropospheric scatter links to Barbados and Guyana; good local service; 109,000 telephones; broadcast stations—2 AM, 4 FM, 5 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station </list></body></article></text>