Egypt: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 14 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 101 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 10,159,464 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 397,531,535 mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | SU (2016) |
| Airports | 83 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 72 over 3,047 m: 15 2,438 to 3,047 m: 36 1,524 to 2,437 m: 15 under 914 m: 6 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 11 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 4 under 914 m: 3 (2013) |
| Heliports | 7 (2013) |
| Pipelines | condensate 486 km; condensate/gas 74 km; gas 7,986 km; liquid petroleum gas 957 km; oil 5,225 km; oil/gas/water 37 km; refined products 895 km; water 65 km (2013) |
| Railways | total: 5,085 km standard gauge: 5,085 km 1.435-m gauge (62 km electrified) (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 137,430 km paved: 126,742 km (includes 838 km of expressways) unpaved: 10,688 km (2010) |
| Waterways | 3,500 km (includes the Nile River, Lake Nasser, Alexandria-Cairo Waterway, and numerous smaller canals in Nile Delta; the Suez Canal (193.5 km including approaches) is navigable by oceangoing vessels drawing up to 17.68 m) (2011) |
| Merchant marine | total: 67 by type: bulk carrier 16, cargo 20, container 3, passenger/cargo 7, petroleum tanker 12, roll on/roll off 9 foreign-owned: 13 (Denmark 1, France 1, Greece 8, Jordan 2, Lebanon 1) registered in other countries: 42 (Cambodia 4, Georgia 7, Honduras 2, Liberia 3, Malta 1, Marshall Islands 1, Moldova 5, Panama 11, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 2, Saudi Arabia 1, Sierra Leone 3, unknown 1) (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Mediterranean Sea - Alexandria, Damietta, El Dekheila, Port Said; Gulf of Suez - Suez oil terminal(s): Ain Sukhna terminal, Sidi Kerir terminal container port(s) (TEUs): Alexandria (1,108,826), Port Said (East) (2,617,043), Port Said (West) (1,138,753) LNG terminal(s) (export): Damietta, Idku (Abu Qir Bay) |