Kuwait Transportation - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

National air transport system

number of registered air carriers: 2 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 44

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 6,464,847 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 392.36 million (2018) mt-km

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

9K

Airports

total: 7 (2021)

Airports - with paved runways

total: 4

over 3,047 m: 1

2,438 to 3,047 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2021)

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 3

1,524 to 2,437 m: 1

under 914 m: 2 (2021)

Heliports

4 (2021)

Pipelines

261 km gas, 540 km oil, 57 km refined products (2013)

Roadways

total: 5,749 km (2018)

paved: 4,887 km (2018)

unpaved: 862 km (2018)

Merchant marine

total: 165

by type: general cargo 15, oil tanker 28, other 122 (2021)

Ports and terminals

major seaport(s): Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina' 'Abd Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi

NOTE: The information regarding Kuwait 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 Kuwait 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kuwait 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.