Ecuador: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 7 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 35 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 5,762,485 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 86,128,720 mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | HC (2016) |
| Airports | 432 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 104 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 1,524 to 2,437 m: 18 914 to 1,523 m: 26 under 914 m: 51 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 328 914 to 1,523 m: 37 under 914 m: 291 (2013) |
| Heliports | 2 (2013) |
| Pipelines | extra heavy crude 527 km; gas 71 km; oil 2,131 km; refined products 1,526 km (2013) |
| Railways | total: 965 km narrow gauge: 965 km 1.067-m gauge (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 43,670 km paved: 6,472 km unpaved: 37,198 km (2007) |
| Waterways | 1,500 km (most inaccessible) (2012) |
| Merchant marine | total: 44 by type: cargo 1, chemical tanker 4, liquefied gas 1, passenger 9, petroleum tanker 28, refrigerated cargo 1 registered in other countries: 4 (Panama 3, Peru 1) (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Esmeraldas, Manta, Puerto Bolivar river port(s): Guayaquil (Guayas) container port(s) (TEUs): Guayaquil (1,405,762) |
| Transportation - note | the International Maritime Bureau continues to report the territorial and offshore waters as at risk for piracy and armed robbery against ships; vessels, including commercial shipping and pleasure craft, have been attacked and hijacked both at anchor and while underway; crews have been robbed and stores or cargoes stolen |