Highways: 3,000 km total; 2,500 km bituminous; 500 km earth, sand, light gravel

Pipelines: crude oil, 877 km; refined products, 40 km; natural gas, 165 km

Ports: Ash Shuwaykh, Ash Shuaybah, Mina al Ahmadi

Merchant marine: 38 ships (1,000 GRT or over), totaling 839,305 GRT/1,200,079 DWT; includes 17 cargo, 6 container, 5 livestock carrier, 9 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 liquefied gas

Civil air: 29 major transport aircraft

Airports: 8 total, 4 usable; 4 with permanent-surface runways; 4 with runways 2,440-3,659 m

Telecommunications: excellent international, adequate domestic facilities; 258,000 telephones; stations--3 AM, 2 FM, 3 TV; 1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT stations; 1 INMARSAT satellite station; 1 ARABSAT station; coaxial cable and radio relay to Iraq and Saudi Arabia

NOTE: The information regarding Kuwait on this page is re-published from the 1989 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kuwait Communications 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kuwait Communications 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.