Cuba Transportation - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

National air transport system

number of registered air carriers: 4 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 18

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 560,754 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 17.76 million (2018) mt-km

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

CU

Airports

total: 133 (2021)

Airports - with paved runways

total: 64

over 3,047 m: 7

2,438 to 3,047 m: 10

1,524 to 2,437 m: 16

914 to 1,523 m: 4

under 914 m: 27 (2021)

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 69

914 to 1,523 m: 11

under 914 m: 58 (2021)

Pipelines

41 km gas, 230 km oil (2013)

Railways

total: 8,367 km (2017)

standard gauge: 8,195 km (2017) 1.435-m gauge (124 km electrified)

narrow gauge: 172 km (2017) 1.000-m gauge

note: As of 2013, 70 km of standard gauge and 12 km of narrow gauge track were not for public use

Roadways

total: 60,000 km (2015)

paved: 20,000 km (2001)

unpaved: 40,000 km (2001)

Waterways

240 km (2011) (almost all navigable inland waterways are near the mouths of rivers)

Merchant marine

total: 59

by type: general cargo 12, oil tanker 7, other 40 (2021)

Ports and terminals

major seaport(s): Antilla, Cienfuegos, Guantanamo, Havana, Matanzas, Mariel, Nuevitas Bay, Santiago de Cuba

NOTE: The information regarding Cuba on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Cuba 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Cuba 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.