France Transportation - 2006

Airports:
479 (2005)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 288
over 3,047 m: 13
2,438 to 3,047 m: 28
1,524 to 2,437 m: 96
914 to 1,523 m: 82
under 914 m: 69 (2005)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 191
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 72
under 914 m: 116 (2005)

Heliports:
3 (2005)

Pipelines:
gas 14,232 km; oil 3,024 km; refined products 4,889 km (2004)

Railways:
total: 29,519 km
standard gauge: 29,352 km 1.435-m gauge (14,481 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (2004)

Roadways:
total: 891,290 km
paved: 891,290 km (including 10,390 km of expressways) (2003)

Waterways:
8,500 km (1,686 km accessible to craft of 3,000 metric tons) (2000)

Merchant marine:
total: 54 ships (1000 GRT or over) 1,050,735 GRT/600,979 DWT
by type: cargo 4, chemical tanker 6, container 1, liquefied gas 3, passenger 3, passenger/cargo 29, petroleum tanker 7, roll on/roll off 1
foreign-owned: 4 (Sweden 3, Turkey 1)
registered in other countries: 151 (Australia 3, The Bahamas 28, Belgium 2, Bermuda 1, Cambodia 1, Cameroon 1, Canada 1, Republic of the Congo 1, French Polynesia 1, French Southern and Antarctic Lands 45, Gibraltar 1, Hong Kong 3, Indonesia 1, Isle of Man 2, Italy 3, South Korea 12, Liberia 3, Luxembourg 9, Malta 8, Mexico 1, Morocco 1, Panama 8, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8, UK 3, Wallis and Futuna 4) (2005)