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<text>
<title>
Denmark: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Denmark
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 2,770 km; Danish State Railways (DSB) operate 2,120
km (1,999 km rail line and 121 km rail ferry services); 188 km
electrified, 730 km double tracked; 650 km of standard-gauge
lines are privately owned and operated
</p>
<p>Highways: 66,482 km total; 64,551 km concrete, bitumen, or
stone block; 1,931 km gravel, crushed stone, improved earth
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 417 km
</p>
<p>Pipelines: crude oil 110 km; petroleum products 578 km;
natural gas 700 km
</p>
<p>Ports: Alborg, Arhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Fredericia;
numerous secondary and minor ports
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 328 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
5,043,277 GRT/7,230,634 DWT; includes 13 short-sea passenger,
102 cargo, 19 refrigerated cargo, 47 container, 37
roll-on/roll-off, 1 railcar carrier, 33 oil tanker, 18 chemical
tanker, 36 liquefied gas, 4 livestock carrier, 17 bulk, 1
combination bulk; note - Denmark has created its own internal
register, called the Danish International Ship register (DIS);
DIS ships do not have to meet Danish manning regulations, and
they amount to a flag of convenience within the Danish register;
by the end of 1990, 258 of the Danish-flag ships belonged to the
DIS
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 118</l>
<l> usable: 109</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 28</l>
<l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
<l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 9</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 7</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: excellent telephone, telegraph, and
broadcast services; 4,509,000 telephones; buried and submarine
cables and microwave radio relay support trunk network;
broadcast stations - 3 AM, 2 FM, 50 TV; 19 submarine coaxial
cables; 7 earth stations operating in INTELSAT, EUTELSAT, and
INMARSAT
</p></body></article></text>