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Communications
Highways: 4,500 km; 2,000 km bituminous, 500 km crushed
stone and gravel, 2,000 km earth, sand, and light gravel (est.).
Pipelines: crude oil, 424 km.
Ports: Al Hudaydah, Al Mukha, Salif, Ras al Katib.
Merchant marine: 1 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL)
tanker (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 192,679 GRT/40,640 DWT.
Civil air: 7 major transport aircraft.
Airports: 19 total, 14 usable; 3 with permanent-surface
runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 9 with runways
2,440-3,659 m; 3 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: system poor but improving; new radio
relay and cable networks; 50,000 telephones; stations--3 AM,
no FM, 17 TV; satellite earth stations--1 Indian Ocean
INTELSAT, 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT; tropospheric
scatter to PDRY; radio relay to PDRY, Saudi Arabia, and Djibouti.