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Communications
Railroads: 12,000 km total; Swedish State Railways (SJ)--10,819 km
1.435-meter standard gauge, 6,955 km electrified and 1,152 km
double track; 182 km 0.891-meter gauge; 117 km rail ferry service;
privately owned railways--511 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (332 km
electrified); 371 km 0.891-meter gauge (all electrified).
Highways: 97,400 km (51,899 km paved, 20,659 km gravel,
24,842 km unimproved earth).
Inland waterways: 2,052 km navigable for small steamers and barges.
Pipelines: 84 km natural gas.
Ports: Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Kalmar, Malmo,
Stockholm; numerous secondary and minor ports.
Merchant marine: 173 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
1,856,217 GRT/2,215,659 DWT; includes 9 short-sea passenger,
29 cargo, 3 container, 42 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 11 vehicle
carrier, 2 railcar carrier, 27 petroleum, oils, and lubricants
(POL) tanker, 25 chemical tanker, 1 liquefied gas, 5 combination
ore/oil, 6 specialized tanker, 12 bulk, 1 combination bulk.
Civil air: 65 major transports.
Airports: 259 total, 256 usable; 138 with permanent-surface
runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 11 with runways
2,440-3,659 m; 91 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: excellent domestic and international
facilities; 8,200,000 telephones; stations--4 AM, 56 (320
relays) FM, 110 (925 relays) TV; 5 submarine coaxial cables;
communication satellite earth stations operating in the
INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean) and EUTELSAT systems.