Railways
total : 23,350 km
broad gauge: 23,350 km 1.524-m gauge (8,600 km electrified)

Highways
total: 172,257 km
paved: 163,300 km (including 1,875 km of expressways); note - these roads aresaid to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weathergravel surfaced
unpaved: 8,957 km (1995 est.)

Waterways 4,400 km navigable waterways, of which 1,672 km were on the Pryp''yat'and Dnistr (1990)

Pipelines crude oil 2,010 km; petroleum products 1,920 km; natural gas 7,800 km(1992)

Ports and harbors Berdyans'k, Illichivs'k, Izmayil, Kerch, Kherson, Kiev (Kyyiv), Mariupol',Mykolayiv, Odesa, Reni

Merchant marine
total : 301 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,507,463 GRT/3,156,522 DWT
ships by type: barge carrier 5, bulk 21, cargo 192, chemical tanker 2, combinationbulk 1, container 10, multifunction large-load carrier 3, oil tanker 23, passenger7, passenger-cargo 4, railcar carrier 2, refrigerated cargo 5, roll-on/roll-offcargo 20, short-sea passenger 6
note : Ukraine owns an additional 61 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,283,735DWT operating under the registries of The Bahamas, Cyprus, Liberia, Malta,Panama, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1996 est.)

Airports 706 (1994 est.)

Airports - with paved runways
total: 163
over 3,047 m: 14
2,438 to 3,047 m: 55
1,524 to 2,437 m : 34
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m : 57 (1994 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 543
over 3,047 m: 7
2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
1,524 to 2,437 m : 16
914 to 1,523 m: 37
under 914 m: 476 (1994 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding Ukraine 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 Ukraine Transportation 1997 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Ukraine Transportation 1997 should be addressed to the CIA.