Transport in Côte d'Ivoire
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[edit] Railways
total: 660 km
narrow gauge: 660 km, 1000 mm gauge; 25 km double track (1995 est.)
[edit] Railway links with adjacent countries
Burkina Faso - yes - 1000 mm
Ghana - no - break of gauge 1000 mm/1067 mm
Mali - no - same gauge
Guinea - no - same gauge
Liberia - no - break of gauge
[edit] Maps
[edit] Towns served by rail
- Abidjan - national capital and port
- Agboville
- Bouaké
- Katiola
- Tafiré
- Wangolodougou
- Ferkessédougou - near Burkina Faso border.
[edit] Towns proposed to be served by rail
- San Pedro - port
- Mount Nimba - iron ore
[edit] Highways
total: 50,400 km
paved: 4,889 km
unpaved: 45,511 km (1996 est.)
The Trans-West African Coastal Highway provides a paved link to Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, with paved highways to landlocked Mali and Burkina Faso feeding into the coastal highway. When construction of roads and bridges in Liberia and Sierra Leone is complete, the highway will link to another 7 ECOWAS nations to the west and north-west.
[edit] Waterways
980 km navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal lagoons
[edit] Ports and harbors
Abidjan, Aboisso, Dabou, San-Pedro
[edit] Merchant marine
total: 1 ship (with a volume of 1,000 gross register tons (GRT) or over) totaling 1,200 GRT/1,500 metric tons of deadweight (DWT)
ships by type: petroleum tanker 1 (1999 est.)
[edit] Airports
36 (1999 est.)
Nouvelle Air Ivoire is the national carrier of Côte d'Ivoire. Recently formed from the failed Air Ivoire, the airline operates an aging fleet of Western-built aircraft. It is owned by Air France and the U.S. Finance company AIG. Air Ivoire was forced to cease operations a number of times due to technical and financial difficulties.
Security/Safety Concerns There is rampant corruption among airport officials in Côte d'Ivoire. Immigration officials have been known to ask for bribes to 'expedite' processing the forms, or to offer to fill out the customs forms prior to demanding a 'fee' for doing so. The anti-French sentiment, peaking in early 2003, spilled over onto airports when 1,500 French nationals were trapped in Abidjan's airport by an anti-French mob.
[edit] Airports - with paved runways
total: 7
10,000 ft (3,048 m) and over: 1
8,000 to 9,999 ft (2,438 to 3,047 m): 2
5,000 to 7,999 ft (1,524 to 2,437 m): 4 (1999 est.)
[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 29
5,000 to 7,999 ft (1,524 to 2,437 m): 8
3,000 to 4,999 ft (914 to 1,523 m): 12
under 3,000 ft (914 m): 9 (1999 est.)
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[edit] References
This article contains material from the CIA World Factbook which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.
