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- Merchant marine: 153 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,671,645
- GRT/5,950,785 DWT; includes 10 short-sea passenger, 19 cargo, 19 container,
- 1 multifunction large-load carrier, 30 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 37 petroleum,
- oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 9 chemical tanker, 6 liquefied gas,
- 4 specialized tanker, 17 bulk, 1 combination bulk; note--France also
- maintains a captive register for French-owned ships in the Kerguelen Islands
- (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) and French Polynesia
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- Civil air: 355 major transport aircraft (1982)
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- Airports: 470 total, 460 usable; 204 with permanent-surface runways; 3
- with runways over 3,659 m; 34 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 133 with runways
- 1,220-2,439 m
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- Telecommunications: highly developed system provides satisfactory
- telephone, telegraph, radio and TV broadcast services; 39,110,000 telephones;
- stations--42 AM, 138 (777 relays) FM, 215 TV (8,900 relays); 25 submarine
- coaxial cables; communication satellite earth stations operating in INTELSAT,
- 3 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, EUTELSAT, MARISAT, and domestic systems
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