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Communications
Railroads: 1,893 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (246 km double
track, 974 km electrified).
Highways: 59,198 km total; 27,740 km bituminous treated,
31,458 km gravel, crushed stone, improved earth, and unimproved
earth.
Pipelines: 362 km crude oil; 491 km (abandoned) refined
products; 241 km natural gas.
Ports: Agadir, Casablanca, El Jorf Lasfar, Kenitra, Mohammedia,
Nador, Safi, Tangier; also Spanish-controlled Ceuta and
Melilla.
Merchant marine: 54 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 334,931
GRT/513,762 DWT; includes 11 cargo, 2 container, 14 refrigerated
cargo, 5 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 3 petroleum, oils, and
lubricants (POL) tanker, 12 chemical tanker, 4 bulk, 3 short-sea
passenger.
Civil air: 23 major transport aircraft.
Airports: 75 total, 68 usable; 26 with permanent-surface runways;
2 with runways over 3,659 m; 14 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
27 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: good system composed of wire lines,
cables, and radio relay links; principal centers are Casablanca
and Rabat, secondary centers are Fes, Marrakech, Oujda,
Tangier, and Tetouan; 280,000 telephones; stations--14 AM, 6 FM,
47 TV; 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations--2 Atlantic
Ocean INTELSAT and 1 ARABSAT; radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain,
and Western Sahara; coaxial cable to Algeria; microwave network
linking Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.