Railways | total: 1,562 km (2016) broad gauge: 1,562 km 1.676-m gauge (2016) |
Roadways | total: 114,093 km (2010) paved: 16,977 km (2010) unpaved: 97,116 km (2010) |
Waterways | 160 km (primarily on rivers in southwest) (2012) |
Pipelines | 7 km refined products |
Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Colombo container port(s) (TEUs): Colombo (7,228,337) (2019) |
Merchant marine | total: 96 by type: bulk carrier 6, container ship 1, general cargo 19, oil tanker 12, other 58 (2020) |
Airports | total: 18 (2020) |
Airports - with paved runways | total: 11 (2020) over 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 4 |
Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 7 (2020) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 2 |
Heliports | 1 (2020) |
National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 3 (2020) inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 34 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 5,882,376 (2018) annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 436.2 million mt-km (2018) |
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | 4R |
Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021