France: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 30 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 485 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 65,039,503 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 4,098.31 million mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | F (2016) |
| Airports | 464 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 294 over 3,047 m: 14 2,438 to 3,047 m: 25 1,524 to 2,437 m: 97 914 to 1,523 m: 83 under 914 m: 75 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 170 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 64 under 914 m: 105 (2013) |
| Heliports | 1 (2013) |
| Pipelines | gas 15,322 km; oil 2,939 km; refined products 5,084 km (2013) |
| Railways | total: 29,640 km standard gauge: 29,473 km 1.435-m gauge (15,561 km electrified) narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (63 km electrified) (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 1,028,446 km (metropolitan France) paved: 1,028,446 km (includes 11,416 km of expressways) note: not included are 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2010) |
| Waterways | metropolitan France: 8,501 km (1,621 km navigable by craft up to 3,000 metric tons) (2010) |
| Merchant marine | total: 162 by type: bulk carrier 3, cargo 7, chemical tanker 34, container 27, liquefied gas 12, passenger 10, passenger/cargo 41, petroleum tanker 16, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 11 foreign-owned: 50 (Belgium 7, Bermuda 5, Denmark 11, French Polynesia 11, Germany 1, New Caledonia 3, Singapore 3, Sweden 4, Switzerland 5) registered in other countries: 151 (Bahamas 15, Belgium 7, Bermuda 1, Canada 1, Cyprus 16, Egypt 1, Hong Kong 4, Indonesia 1, Ireland 2, Italy 2, Luxembourg 15, Malta 8, Marshall Islands 7, Mexico 1, Morocco 3, Netherlands 2, Norway 5, Panama 7, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2, Singapor (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Brest, Calais, Dunkerque, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes, river port(s): Paris, Rouen (Seine); Strasbourg (Rhine); Bordeaux (Garronne) container port(s): Le Havre (2,215,262)(2011) cruise/ferry port(s): Calais, Cherbourg, Le Havre LNG terminal(s) (import): Fos Cavaou, Fos Tonkin, Montoir de Bretagne |