Communications (Latvia)
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     Railroads:
       2,400 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
     Highways:
       59,500 km total; 33,000 km hard surfaced 26,500 km earth (1990)
     Inland waterways:
       300 km perennially navigable
     Pipelines:
       crude oil 750 km, refined products 780 km, natural gas 560 km (1992)
     Ports:
       coastal - Riga, Ventspils, Liepaja; inland - Daugavpils
     Merchant marine:
       96 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 905,006 GRT/1,178,844 DWT; includes 14
       cargo, 27 refrigerated cargo, 2 container, 9 roll-on/roll-off, 44 oil tanker
     Airports:
      total:
       50
      useable:
       15
      with permanent-surface runways:
       11
      with runways over 3,659 m:
       0
      with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
       7
      with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
       7
     Telecommunications:
       NMT-450 analog cellular network is operational covering Riga, Ventspils,
       Daugavpils, Rezekne, and Valmiera; broadcast stations - NA; international
       traffic carried by leased connection to the Moscow international gateway
       switch and through new independent international automatic telephone
       exchange in Riga and the Finnish cellular net