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- Communications
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- Railroads: 3,189 km total; 2,879 km 1.067-meter gauge, 310 km
- 0.600-meter gauge; limited trackage in use because of
- insurgent attacks; sections of the Benguela Railroad closed
- because of insurgency.
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- Highways: 73,828 km total; 8,577 km bituminous-surface treatment,
- 29,350 km crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth, remainder
- unimproved earth.
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- Inland waterways: 1,295 km navigable.
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- Pipelines: crude oil, 179 km.
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- Ports: Luanda, Lobito, Namibe, Cabinda.
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- Merchant marine: 12 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 66,348
- GRT/102,825 DWT; includes 11 cargo, 1 petroleum, oils, and
- lubricants (POL) tanker.
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- Civil air: 27 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 317 total, 184 usable; 28 with permanent-surface
- runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m; 12 with runways 2,440-3,659
- m; 60 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: fair system of wire, radio relay, and
- troposcatter routes; high frequency used extensively for
- military/Cuban links; 40,300 telephones; stations--17 AM,
- 13 FM, 2 TV; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations.
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