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Canada Transportation 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Canada Transportation 2012
SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 15,

Airports:
1,404 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 4
[see also: Airports country ranks ]

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 514
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - total country ranks ]
over 3,047 m: 18
2,438 to 3,047 m: 20
1,524 to 2,437 m: 148
914 to 1,523 m: 249
under 914 m: 79 (2010)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 890
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - total country ranks ]
1,524 to 2,437 m: 73
914 to 1,523 m: 377
under 914 m: 440 (2010)

Heliports:
12 (2010)
[see also: Heliports country ranks ]

Pipelines:
gas 835 km; liquid petroleum gas 75,000 km (2010)
[see also: Pipelines country ranks ]

Railways:
total: 46,552 km
country comparison to the world: 5
standard gauge: 46,552 km 1.435-m gauge (2009)
[see also: Railways country ranks ]

Roadways:
total: 1,042,300 km
country comparison to the world: 6
paved: 415,600 km (includes 17,000 km of expressways)
unpaved: 626,700 km (2009)
[see also: Roadways country ranks ]

Waterways:
636 km (Saint Lawrence Seaway of 3,769 km, including the Saint Lawrence River of 3,058 km, shared with United States) (2008)
country comparison to the world: 78
[see also: Waterways country ranks ]

Merchant marine:
total: 184
country comparison to the world: 36
by type: bulk carrier 66, cargo 12, carrier 1, chemical tanker 14, combination ore/oil 1, container 2, passenger 6, passenger/cargo 64, petroleum tanker 12, roll on/roll off 6
foreign-owned: 15 (France 1, Netherlands 1, Norway 4, US 9)
registered in other countries: 223 (Australia 7, Bahamas 102, Barbados 13, Cambodia 2, Cyprus 2, Honduras 1, Hong Kong 70, Liberia 4, Malta 1, Marshall Islands 4, Norway 1, Panama 5, Spain 5, US 1, Vanuatu 5) (2010)
[see also: Merchant marine country ranks ]

Ports and terminals:
Fraser River Port, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, Port-Cartier, Quebec City, Saint John (New Brunswick), Sept-Isles, Vancouver
oil terminals: Lower Lakes terminal


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Canada on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Canada Transportation 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Canada Transportation 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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