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- Communications
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- Railroads: 4,223 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; Norwegian
- State Railways (NSB) operates 4,219 km (2,450 km electrified
- and 96 km double track); 4 km other.
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- Highways: 79,540 km total; 18,600 km concrete, bituminous,
- stone block; 19,980 km bituminous treated; 40,960 km gravel,
- crushed stone, and earth.
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- Inland waterways: 1,577 km along west coast; 1.5-2.4 m draft
- vessels maximum.
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- Pipelines: refined products, 53 km.
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- Ports: Oslo, Bergen, Fredrikstad, Kristiansand, Stavanger,
- Trondheim.
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- Merchant marine: 660 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
- 16,702,254 GRT/28,722,304 DWT; includes 11 passenger, 19
- short-sea passenger, 104 cargo, 3 passenger-cargo, 19 refrigerated
- cargo, 6 container, 40 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 6 vehicle carrier,
- 1 railcar carrier, 128 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL)
- tanker, 86 chemical tanker, 62 liquefied gas, 26 combination
- ore/oil, 142 bulk, 7 combination bulk; note--the government
- has created a captive register, the Norwegian International
- Ship Register (NIS), as a subset of the Norwegian register;
- ships on the NIS enjoy many benefits of flags of convenience
- and do not have to be crewed by Norwegians; the majority of ships
- under the Norwegian flag are now registered with the NIS.
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- Civil air: 76 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 104 total, 104 usable; 64 with permanent-surface
- runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 12 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 16 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: high-quality domestic and international
- telephone, telegraph, and telex services; 3,102,000 telephones;
- stations--8 AM, 46 (1,400 relays) FM, 55 (2,100 relays)
- TV; 4 coaxial submarine cables; communications satellite
- earth stations operating in the EUTELSAT, INTELSAT (1 Atlantic
- Ocean), MARISAT, and domestic systems.
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