Communications (Yemen)
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     Highways:
         15,500 km; 4,000 km paved, 11,500 km natural surface (est.)
     Pipelines:
         crude oil 644 km, petroleum products 32 km
     Ports:
         Aden, Al Hudaydah, Al Khalf, Mocha, Nishtun, Ra's Kathib, Salif
     Merchant marine:
         3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,309 GRT/6,568 DWT; includes 2 cargo,
         1 petroleum tanker
     Civil air:
         11 major transport aircraft
     Airports:
         46 total, 40 usable; 10 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways
         over 3,659 m; 20 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 11 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
     Telecommunications:
         since unification in 1990, efforts are being made to create a national
         domestic civil telecommunications network and to revitalize the
         infrastructure of a united Yemen; the network consists of microwave, cable
         and troposcatter; 65,000 telephones (est.); broadcast stations - 4 AM, 1 FM,
         10 TV; satellite earth stations - 2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Atlantic Ocean
         INTELSAT, 1 Intersputnik, 2 ARABSAT; microwave to Saudi Arabia, and Djibouti