Introduction
Which are the key means of transportation in Tanzania? Tanzania has transport systems like Rail, Air, Pipeline, etc, with Waterways of about 1,594 km (2022) (Lake Tanganyika 673 km, Lake Victoria 337 km, and Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) 584 km are the principal avenues of commerce with neighboring countries; the rivers are not navigable). The Civil aircraft registration country code prefix is 5H
Transportation in Tanzania
| Number of Airports | 206 (2024) |
|---|---|
| Heliports | |
| Pipelines | 311 km gas, 891 km oil, 8 km refined products (2013) |
| Railways | |
| Total | 4,097 km (2022) |
| Standard gauge | 421 km (2022) |
| Narrow gauge | 969 km (2022) 1.067 m gauge |
| Broad gauge | 2,707 km (2022) 1.000 m guage |
| Roadways | |
| Total | 145,203 km |
| Paved | 11,201 km |
| Unpaved | 134,002 km (2022) |
| National air transport system | |
| Number of registered air carriers | 11 (2020) |
| Inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers | 91 |
| Annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers | 1,481,557 (2018) |
| Annual freight traffic on registered air carriers | 390,000 (2018) mt-km |
| Merchant marine | |
| Total | 381 (2023) |
| By type | bulk carrier 4, container ship 17, general cargo 170, oil tanker 58, other 132 |
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