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- Communications
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- Highways: 2,000 km total; 1,800 km bituminous, 200 km gravel
- and graded earth.
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- Pipelines: 830 km crude oil; 870 km natural gas, including
- natural gas liquids.
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- Ports: Al Fujayrah, Khawr Fakkan, Mina Jabal Ali, Mina Khalid,
- Mina Rashid, Mina Saqr, Mina Zayid.
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- Merchant marine: 47 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 728,332
- GRT/1,181,566 DWT; includes 14 cargo, 7 container, 2 roll-on/roll-off
- cargo, 20 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 4 bulk.
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- Civil air: 8 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 40 total, 34 usable; 19 with permanent-surface runways;
- 8 with runways over 3,659 m; 5 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
- 4 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: adequate system of radio relay and coaxial
- cable; key centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubayy; 386,600 telephones;
- stations--8 AM, 3 FM, 12 TV; satellite earth stations--1 Atlantic
- Ocean INTELSAT, 2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT and 1 ARABSAT;
- submarine cables to Qatar, Bahrain, India, and Pakistan;
- tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; radio relay to Saudi Arabia.
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