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Latvia Transportation - 2024


SOURCE: 2024 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK

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National air transport system

number of registered air carriers: 3 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 53

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 4,058,762 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 4.01 million (2018) mt-km

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix

YL

Airports

56 (2024)

Heliports

5 (2024)

Pipelines

1,213 km gas, 417 km refined products (2018)

Railways

total: 2,216 km (2020) 257 km electrified

Roadways

total: 57,972 km (2022)

Waterways

300 km (2010) (navigable year-round)

Merchant marine

total: 83 (2023)

by type: container ship 2, general cargo 30, oil tanker 10, other 41

Ports and terminals

major seaport(s): Riga, Ventspils

Transportation - note

Latvia operates one PC 5 or 6 class icebreaker in the Baltic Sea
note - PC indicates a Polar Class vessel: PC 5 - year-round operation in medium first-year ice which may include old ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 70-120 cm); PC 6 - summer/autumn operation in medium first-year ice which may include old ice inclusions (ice thickness up to 30-70 cm)

NOTE: The information regarding Latvia on this page is re-published from the 2024 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Latvia 2024 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Latvia 2024 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.

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