Transport in Uruguay

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Railways:
total: 2835.558 km
standard gauge: 2835.558 km 1.435-m gauge (2005)
In service: 1507.832 km
Out of service: 1327.726 km

There are freight rail connections with Argentina over the Salto Grande Dam and with Brazil (with freight transhipment because of gauge difference) at Santana do Livramento.
Regular passenger services are operated between Montevideo and 25 de Agosto (63 km) since August 1993 and between Montevideo and Ingeniero Victor Sudriers since December 15th, 2005 (44 km).

Highways:
total: 8,983 km
paved: 8,085 km
unpaved: 898 km (1999 est.)

Waterways: 1,600 km; used by coastal and shallow-draft river craft

Ports and harbors: Montevideo, Fray Bentos, Nueva Palmira, Paysandu, Punta del Este, Colonia, Piriápolis.

Merchant marine:
total: 1 ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,807 GRT/2,405 DWT
ships by type: petroleum tanker 1 (1999 est.)

Airports: 65 (1999 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 15
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 8
under 914 m: 1 (1999 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 50
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 15
under 914 m: 33 (1999 est.)

National airline: