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- Railroads: 3,059 km total; 2,454 1.000-meter gauge, 151 km
- 1.435-meter standard gauge, 230 km dual gauge (three rails),
- and 224 km not restored to service.
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- Highways: about 85,000 km total; 9,400 km bituminous, 48,700 km
- gravel or improved earth, 26,900 km unimproved earth.
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- Pipelines: 150 km, refined products.
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- Inland waterways: about 17,702 km navigable; more than 5,149 km
- navigable at all times by vessels up to 1.8 meter draft.
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- Ports: Da Nang, Haiphong, Ho Chi Minh City.
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- Merchant marine: 71 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 290,123
- GRT/432,152 DWT; includes 1 short-sea passenger, 55 cargo,
- 4 refrigerated cargo, 1 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 1 vehicle
- carrier, 8 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker,
- 1 bulk; note--Vietnam owns 10 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or
- over) totaling 111,028 DWT under the registry of Panama and Malta.
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- Civil air: controlled by military.
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- Airports: 100 total, 100 usable; 50 with permanent-surface
- runways; 10 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 20 with runways
- 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: 35,000 telephones in Ho Chi Minh City
- (1984); stations--16 AM, 1 FM, 2 TV; 2,300,000 TV sets;
- 6,000,000 radio receivers; at least 2 satellite earth stations,
- including 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT.
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