Ireland: Transportation#
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 6 inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 431 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 113,144,501 annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 138.58 million mt-km (2015) |
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| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | EI (2016) |
| Airports | 40 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 16 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 5 under 914 m: 5 (2013) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 24 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 21 (2013) |
| Pipelines | gas 2,147 km (2013) |
| Railways | total: 3,237 km broad gauge: 1,872 km 1.600-m gauge (49 km electrified) narrow gauge: 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish Peat Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting plants) (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 96,036 km paved: 96,036 km (includes 1,224 km of expressways) (2014) |
| Waterways | 956 km (pleasure craft only) (2010) |
| Merchant marine | total: 31 by type: cargo 28, chemical tanker 2, container 1 foreign-owned: 5 (France 2, Spain 1, US 2) registered in other countries: 33 (Bahamas 3, Bermuda 1, Cambodia 1, Cyprus 3, Isle of Man 1, Kazakhstan 1, Malta 4, Marshall Islands 6, Netherlands 8, Panama 1, Russia 1, Slovakia 1, Sweden 1, UK 1) (2010) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Dublin, Shannon Foynes river port(s): Cork (Lee), Waterford (Suir) container port(s) (TEUs): Dublin (1,931,001) |