Sri Lanka Transportation - 2021

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

National air transport system

number of registered air carriers: 3 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 34

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 5,882,376 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 436.2 million mt-km (2018)

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

4R

Airports

total: 18 (2020)

Airports - with paved runways

total: 11 (2020)

over 3,047 m: 2

1,524 to 2,437 m: 5

914 to 1,523 m: 4

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 7 (2020)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 3

under 914 m: 2

Heliports

1 (2020)

Pipelines

7 km refined products

Railways

total: 1,562 km (2016)

broad gauge: 1,562 km 1.676-m gauge (2016)

Roadways

total: 114,093 km (2010)

paved: 16,977 km (2010)

unpaved: 97,116 km (2010)

Waterways

160 km (primarily on rivers in southwest) (2012)

Merchant marine

total: 96

by type: bulk carrier 6, container ship 1, general cargo 19, oil tanker 12, other 58 (2020)

Ports and terminals

major seaport(s): Colombo

container port(s) (TEUs): Colombo (6,209,000) (2017)

NOTE: The information regarding Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Sri Lanka 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.