Railways 0 km

Highways
total: Greek area: 10,150 km; Turkish area: 2,350 km
paved : Greek area: 5,781 km; Turkish area: 1,370 km
unpaved: Greek area: 4,369 km; Turkish area: 980 km

Ports and harbors Famagusta, Kyrenia, Larnaca, Limassol, Vasilikos Bay

Merchant marine
total : 1,520 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 24,234,821 GRT/40,170,562 DWT
ships by type: bulk 486, cargo 562, chemical tanker 26, combination bulk 50, combinationore/oil 19, container 119, liquefied gas tanker 3, oil tanker 142, passenger7, passenger-cargo 1, refrigerated cargo 50, roll-on/roll-off cargo 32, short-seapassenger 17, specialized tanker 4, vehicle carrier 2
note: a flag of convenience registry; includes ships from 49 countries amongwhich are Greece 723, Germany 172, Russia 45, Netherlands 32, Japan 30, Belgium26, Cuba 26, Latvia 17, UK 15, and US 14; Cyprus owns 71 additional ships(1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,491,740 DWT that operate under the registriesof Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Hong Kong, Liberia, Malta, Panama, Syria,and UK (1996 est.)

Airports 15 (1996 est.)

Airports - with paved runways
total : 14
2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 3 (1996 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 1
914 to 1,523 m : 1 (1996 est.)

Heliports 4 (1996 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding Cyprus on this page is re-published from the 1997 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Cyprus Transportation 1997 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Cyprus Transportation 1997 should be addressed to the CIA.