Bolivia: Transportation#
National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 7 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 39 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 2,578,959 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 9,456,548 mt-km (2015) |
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Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | CP (2016) |
Airports | 855 (2013) |
Airports - with paved runways | total: 21 over 3,047 m: 5 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 6 914 to 1,523 m: 6 (2013) |
Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 834 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 47 914 to 1,523 m: 151 under 914 m: 631 (2013) |
Pipelines | gas 5,457 km; liquid petroleum gas 51 km; oil 2,511 km; refined products 1,627 km (2013) |
Railways | total: 3,504 km narrow gauge: 3,504 km 1.000-m gauge (2014) |
Roadways | total: 80,488 km paved: 6,850 km unpaved: 73,638 km (2010) |
Waterways | 10,000 km (commercially navigable almost exclusively in the northern and eastern parts of the country) (2012) |
Merchant marine | total: 18 by type: bulk carrier 1, cargo 14, petroleum tanker 1, roll on/roll off 2 foreign-owned: 5 (Syria 4, UK 1, (2010) |
Ports and terminals | river port(s): Puerto Aguirre (Paraguay/Parana) note: Bolivia has free port privileges in maritime ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay |