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<text id=93CT1561>
<title>
Yemen--Communications
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Yemen
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Highways: 15,500 km total; 4,000 km paved, 11,500 km natural
surface (est.)
</p>
<p>Pipelines: crude oil 644 km, petroleum products 32 km
</p>
<p>Ports: Aden, Al Hudaydah, Al Khalf, Al Mukalla, Mocha,
Nishtun, Ra's Kathib, Salif
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,309
GRT/6,568 DWT; includes 2 cargo, 1 oil tanker
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 45</l>
<l> usable: 39</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 10</l>
<l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
<l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 18</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 11</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: since unification in 1990, efforts are
still being made to create a national domestic civil
telecommunications network; the network consists of microwave
radio relay, 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 radio relay to Saudi Arabia,
and Djibouti
</p></body></article></text>