Colombia: Transportation#
National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 12 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 157 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 30,742,928 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1,317,562,271 mt-km (2015) |
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Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | HJ, HK (2016) |
Airports | 836 (2013) |
Airports - with paved runways | total: 121 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 9 1,524 to 2,437 m: 39 914 to 1,523 m: 53 under 914 m: 18 (2013) |
Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 715 over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 25 914 to 1,523 m: 201 under 914 m: 488 (2013) |
Heliports | 3 (2013) |
Pipelines | gas 4,991 km; oil 6,796 km; refined products 3,429 km (2013) |
Railways | total: 2,141 km standard gauge: 150 km 1.435-m gauge narrow gauge: 1,991 km 0.914-m gauge (2015) |
Roadways | total: 204,855 km (2015) |
Waterways | 24,725 km (18,300 km navigable; the most important waterway, the River Magdalena, of which 1,488 km is navigable, is dredged regularly to ensure safe passage of cargo vessels and container barges) (2012) |
Merchant marine | total: 12 by type: cargo 9, chemical tanker 1, petroleum tanker 2 registered in other countries: 4 (Antigua and Barbuda 1, Panama 2, Portugal 1) (2010) |
Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Atlantic Ocean (Caribbean) - Cartagena, Santa Marta, Turbo; Pacific Ocean - Buenaventura river port(s): Barranquilla (Rio Magdalena) oil terminal(s): Covenas offshore terminal dry bulk cargo port(s): Puerto Bolivar (coal) container port(s) (TEUs): Cartagena (1,853,342) |