Malawi Transportation - 2021

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

National air transport system

number of registered air carriers: 2 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 9

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 10,545 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 10,000 mt-km (2018)

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

7Q

Airports

total: 32 (2013)

Airports - with paved runways

total: 7 (2019)

over 3,047 m: 1

1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 4

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 25 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 11 (2013)

under 914 m: 13 (2013)

Railways

total: 767 km (2014)

narrow gauge: 767 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)

Roadways

total: 15,452 km (2015)

paved: 4,074 km (2015)

unpaved: 11,378 km (2015)

Waterways

700 km (on Lake Nyasa [Lake Malawi] and Shire River) (2010)

Ports and terminals

lake port(s): Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota, Chilumba (Lake Nyasa)

NOTE: The information regarding Malawi on this page is re-published from the 2021 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Malawi 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Malawi 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.