Transportation of Ireland
Airports: | 36 (2006) |
Airports - with paved runways: | total: 15 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 6 (2006) |
Airports - with unpaved runways: | total: 21 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 17 (2006) |
Pipelines: | gas 1,728 km (2006) |
Railways: | total: 3,237 km broad gauge: 1,872 km 1.600-m gauge (37 km electrified) narrow gauge: 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish Peat Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting plants) (2006) |
Roadways: | total: 96,602 km paved: 96,602 km (includes 200 km of expressways) (2003) |
Waterways: | 956 km (pleasure craft only) (2007) |
Merchant marine: | total: 23 ships (1000 GRT or over) 103,589 GRT/145,044 DWT by type: cargo 19, chemical tanker 2, container 1, roll on/roll off 1 foreign-owned: 4 (Germany 2, US 2) registered in other countries: 21 (Bahamas 2, Bermuda 1, Cyprus 3, Gibraltar 1, Netherlands 10, Panama 2, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1, UK 1) (2006) |
Ports and terminals: | Cork, Dublin, New Ross, Shannon Foynes, Waterford |