Nigeria: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 16 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 73 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 3,223,459 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 22,400,657 mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | 5N (2016) |
| Airports | 54 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 40 over 3,047 m: 10 2,438 to 3,047 m: 12 1,524 to 2,437 m: 9 914 to 1,523 m: 6 under 914 m: 3 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 14 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 9 under 914 m: 3 (2013) |
| Heliports | 5 (2013) |
| Pipelines | condensate 124 km; gas 4,045 km; liquid petroleum gas 164 km; oil 4,441 km; refined products 3,940 km (2013) |
| Railways | total: 3,798 km standard gauge: 293 km 1.435-m gauge narrow gauge: 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 193,200 km paved: 28,980 km unpaved: 164,220 km (2004) |
| Waterways | 8,600 km (Niger and Benue Rivers and smaller rivers and creeks) (2011) |
| Merchant marine | total: 89 by type: cargo 2, chemical tanker 28, liquefied gas 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 56, specialized tanker 1 foreign-owned: 3 (India 1, UK 2) registered in other countries: 33 (Bahamas 2, Bermuda 11, Comoros 1, Italy 1, Liberia 4, North Korea 1, Panama 6, Seychelles 1, unknown 6) (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Bonny Inshore Terminal, Calabar, Lagos LNG terminal(s) (export): Bonny Island |
| Transportation - note | the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Niger Delta and Gulf of Guinea as high risk for piracy and armed robbery of ships; in 2014, 18 commercial vessels were boarded or attacked compared with 31 attacks in 2013; crews were robbed and stores or cargoes stolen; Nigerian pirates have extended the range of their attacks to as far away as Cote d'Ivoire |