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Switzerland Transportation 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











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


Page last updated on February 13,

Airports:
65 (2010)
country comparison to the world: 76
[see also: Airports country ranks ]

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 42
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - total country ranks ]
over 3,047 m: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 17 (2010)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 23
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - total country ranks ]
under 914 m: 23 (2010)

Heliports:
1 (2010)
[see also: Heliports country ranks ]

Pipelines:
gas 1,681 km; oil 94 km; refined products 7 km (2010)
[see also: Pipelines country ranks ]

Railways:
total: 4,876 km
country comparison to the world: 37
standard gauge: 3,846 km 1.435-m gauge (3,591 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,081 km 1.000-m gauge (1,013 km electrified); 10 km 0.800-m gauge (10 km electrified) (2010)
[see also: Railways country ranks ]

Roadways:
total: 71,454 km
country comparison to the world: 65
paved: 71,454 km (includes 1,790 of expressways) (2010)
[see also: Roadways country ranks ]

Waterways:
1,299 km (there are 1,227 km of waterways on lakes and rivers for public transport and another 65 km on the Rhine River between Basel-Rheinfelden and Schaffhausen-Bodensee used for the transport of commercial goods) (2010)
country comparison to the world: 57
[see also: Waterways country ranks ]

Merchant marine:
total: 35
country comparison to the world: 80
by type: bulk carrier 15, cargo 9, chemical tanker 6, container 4, petroleum tanker 1
registered in other countries: 109 (Antigua and Barbuda 7, Bahamas 2, Cayman Islands 1, France 5, Germany 1, Italy 6, Liberia 17, Luxembourg 1, Malta 14, Marshall Islands 12, NZ 2, Panama 22, Portugal 3, Russia 4, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 5, Singapore 4, Spain 1, Tonga 1, Tuvalu 1) (2010)
[see also: Merchant marine country ranks ]

Ports and terminals:
Basel


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Switzerland 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 Switzerland Transportation 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Switzerland 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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