Tanzania: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 5 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 17 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,239,707 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 2,337,440 mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | 5H (2016) |
| Airports | 166 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 10 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 156 over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 24 914 to 1,523 m: 98 under 914 m: 33 (2013) |
| Pipelines | gas 311 km; oil 891 km; refined products 8 km (2013) |
| Railways | total: 4,567 km narrow gauge: 1,860 km 1.067-m gauge; 2,707 km 1.000-m gauge (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 86,472 km paved: 7,092 km unpaved: 79,380 km (2010) |
| Waterways | (Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, and Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) are the principal avenues of commerce with neighboring countries; the rivers are not navigable) (2011) |
| Merchant marine | total: 94 by type: bulk carrier 6, cargo 66, carrier 4, chemical tanker 1, container 1, passenger/cargo 2, petroleum tanker 10, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 3 foreign-owned: 42 (Japan 1, Romania 1, Saudi Arabia 1, Syria 23, Turkey 13, UAE 3) registered in other countries: 3 (Panama 2, UK 1) (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar |
| Transportation - note | the International Maritime Bureau reports that shipping in territorial and offshore waters in the Indian Ocean remain at risk for piracy and armed robbery against ships, especially as Somali-based pirates extend their activities south; numerous commercial vessels have been attacked and hijacked both at anchor and while underway; crews have been robbed and stores or cargoes stolen |