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Communications
Railroads: 886 km 1.435-meter standard gauge.
Highways: 74,000 km total; 35,000 km bituminous, 39,000 km
gravel and improved earth.
Pipelines: 6,400 km crude oil; 150 km refined products;
2,200 km natural gas, includes 1,600 km of natural gas liquids.
Ports: Jiddah, Ad Dammam, Ras Tanura, Jizan, Al Jubayl,
Yanbu al Bahr, Yanbu al Sinaiyah.
Merchant marine: 94 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,988,322
GRT/3,474,788 DWT; includes 1 passenger, 6 short-sea passenger,
1 passenger-cargo, 15 cargo, 12 roll-on/roll-off cargo,
3 container, 6 refrigerated cargo, 4 livestock carrier,
32 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 8 chemical
tanker, 1 liquefied gas, 1 combination ore/oil, 1 specialized
tanker, 3 bulk.
Civil air: 182 major transport aircraft available.
Airports: 204 total, 179 usable; 66 with permanent-surface runways;
13 with runways over 3,659 m; 33 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
98 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: good system with extensive microwave and
coaxial cable systems; 1,624,000 telephones; stations--21 AM,
16 FM, 97 TV; radio relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar,
UAE, YAR, and Sudan; coaxial cable to Kuwait; submarine cable
to Djibouti and Egypt; satellite earth stations--3 Atlantic
Ocean INTELSAT, 2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT, 1 INMARSAT,
1 ARABSAT.