Railroads: 23,350 km (1,524-mm gauge); 8,600 km electrified

Highways: total 273,700 km paved and gravel 236,400 km unpaved earth 37,300 km
Telecommunications: the telephone system is inadequate both for business and for personal use; about 7,886,000 telephone circuits serve 52,056,000 people (1991); telephone density is 151. Pipelines: crude oil 2,010 km; petroleum products 1,920 km; natural gas 7,800 km
Ports: coastal - Berdyans'k, Illichivs'k, Kerch, Kherson, Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, Sevastopol', Pivdenne; inland - Kiev (Kyyiv)
Inland waterways: 1,672 km perennially navigable (Pryp'yat' and Dnipro Rivers)
Merchant marine: 390 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,932,009 GRT/5,236,134 DWT, barge carriers 7, bulk cargo 55, cargo 231, chemical tanker 2, container 18, liquefied gas 1, multi-function-large-load-carrier 1, oil tanker 10, passenger 12, passenger cargo 5, railcar carrier 2, refrigerated cargo 5, roll-on/roll-off cargo 33, short-sea passenger 8 Airports: total 694 usable 199


 


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