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- Communications
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- Railroads: 3,288 km total; 3,140 km 1.067-meter gauge; 148 km
- 0.762-meter narrow gauge; Malawi-Nacala, Malawi-Beira, and
- Zimbabwe-Maputo lines are subject to closure because of insurgency.
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- Highways: 26,498 km total; 4,593 km paved; 829 km gravel,
- crushed stone, stabilized soil; 21,076 km unimproved earth.
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- Inland waterways: about 3,750 km of navigable routes.
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- Pipelines: 306 km crude oil (not operating); 289 km refined
- products.
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- Ports: Maputo, Beira, Nacala.
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- Merchant marine: 5 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
- 7,806 GRT/12,873 DWT.
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- Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 203 total, 153 usable; 27 with permanent-surface
- runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 6 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 29 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: fair system of troposcatter, open-wire
- lines, and radio relay; 57,400 telephones; stations--15
- AM, 3 FM, 1 TV; satellite earth stations--1 Atlantic Ocean
- INTELSAT and 3 domestic.
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