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- Communications
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- Railroads: 3,037 km track (includes 1,871 km electrified and
- 1,800 km double track; 2,871 km 1.435-meter standard gauge
- operated by Netherlands Railways (NS); 166 km privately owned.
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- Highways: 108,360 km total; 92,525 km paved (including 2,185 km of
- limited access, divided highways); 15,835 km gravel, crushed stone.
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- Inland waterways: 6,340 km, of which 35% is usable by craft
- of 1,000 metric ton capacity or larger.
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- Pipelines: 418 km crude oil; 965 km refined products; 10,230 km
- natural gas.
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- Ports: maritime--Amsterdam, Delfzijl, Den Helder, Dordrecht,
- Eemshaven, Ijmuiden, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Terneuzen,
- Vlissingen; inland--29 ports.
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- Merchant marine: 345 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
- 2,661,822 GRT/3,732,282 DWT; includes 2 short-sea passenger,
- 187 cargo, 42 refrigerated cargo, 23 container, 9 roll-on/roll-off
- cargo, 3 livestock carrier, 12 multifunction large-load carrier,
- 15 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 27 chemical
- tanker, 11 liquefied gas, 2 specialized tanker, 1 combination
- ore/oil, 9 bulk, 2 combination bulk; note--many Dutch-owned ships
- are also registered in the captive Netherlands Antilles register.
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- Civil air: 98 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 28 total, 28 usable; 19 with permanent-surface
- runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 12 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 3 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: highly developed, well maintained, and
- integrated; extensive system of multiconductor cables, supplemented
- by radio relay links; 9,418,000 telephones; stations--6 AM,
- 20 (32 repeaters) FM, 21 (8 repeaters) TV; 5 submarine cables;
- communication satellite earth stations operating in INTELSAT
- (1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean) and EUTELSAT systems.
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