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  1. <text>
  2. <title>
  3. Singapore: Communications
  4. </title>
  5. <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Singapore
  6. Communications</hdr><body>
  7. <p>Railroads: 38 km of 1.000-meter gauge
  8. </p>
  9. <p>Highways: 2,644 km total (1985)
  10. </p>
  11. <p>Ports: Singapore
  12. </p>
  13. <p>Merchant marine: 492 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
  14. 9,763,511 GRT/15,816,384 DWT; includes 1 passenger-cargo, 125
  15. cargo, 72 container, 7 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 4 refrigerated
  16. cargo, 18 vehicle carrier, 1 livestock carrier, 165 oil tanker,
  17. 8 chemical tanker, 7 combination ore/oil, 2 specialized tanker,
  18. 5 liquefied gas, 74 bulk, 3 combination bulk; note - many
  19. Singapore flag ships are foreign owned
  20. </p>
  21. <list>
  22. <l>Airports:</l>
  23. <l>  total: 10</l>
  24. <l>  usable: 10</l>
  25. <l>  with permanent-surface runways: 10</l>
  26. <l>  with runways over 3,659 m: 2</l>
  27. <l>  with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 4</l>
  28. <l>  with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 3</l>
  29. </list>
  30. <p>Telecommunications: good domestic facilities; good
  31. international service; good radio and television broadcast
  32. coverage; 1,110,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 13 AM, 4
  33. FM, 2 TV; submarine cables extend to Malaysia (Sabah and
  34. peninsular Malaysia), Indonesia, and the Philippines; satellite
  35. earth stations - 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT and 1 Pacific Ocean
  36. INTELSAT
  37. </p></body></article></text>
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