Australia: Transportation#
National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 11 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 175 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 69,294,187 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1,887,295,820 mt-km (2015) |
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Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | VH (2016) |
Airports | 480 (2013) |
Airports - with paved runways | total: 349 over 3,047 m: 11 2,438 to 3,047 m: 14 1,524 to 2,437 m: 155 914 to 1,523 m: 155 under 914 m: 14 (2013) |
Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 131 1,524 to 2,437 m: 16 914 to 1,523 m: 101 under 914 m: 14 (2013) |
Heliports | 1 (2013) |
Pipelines | condensate/gas 637 km; gas 30,054 km; liquid petroleum gas 240 km; oil 3,609 km; oil/gas/water 110 km; refined products 72 km (2013) |
Railways | total: 36,967.5 km broad gauge: 3,727 km 1.600-m gauge (372 km electrified) standard gauge: 18,727 km 1.435-m gauge (650 km electrified) narrow gauge: 14,513.5 km 1.067-m gauge (2,075.5 km electrified) (2014) |
Roadways | total: 823,217 km paved: 356,343 km unpaved: 466,874 km (2011) |
Waterways | 2,000 km (mainly used for recreation on Murray and Murray-Darling river systems) (2011) |
Merchant marine | total: 41 by type: bulk carrier 8, cargo 7, liquefied gas 4, passenger 6, passenger/cargo 6, petroleum tanker 5, roll on/roll off 5 foreign-owned: 17 (Canada 5, Germany 2, Singapore 2, South Africa 1, UK 5, US 2) registered in other countries: 25 (Bahamas 1, Dominica 1, Fiji 2, Liberia 1, Netherlands 1, Panama 4, Singapore 12, Tonga 1, UK 1, US 1) (2010) |
Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Fremantle, Geelong, Gladstone, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle, Port Adelaide, Port Kembla, Sydney dry bulk cargo port(s): Dampier (iron ore), Dalrymple Bay (coal), Hay Point (coal), Port Hedland (iron ore), Port Walcott (iron ore) container port(s) (TEUs): Brisbane (1,004,983), Melbourne (2,467,967), Sydney (2,028,074)(2011) LNG terminal(s) (export): Darwin, Karratha, Burrup, Curtis Island |