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Ethiopia

Transportation

National Transport System

number of registered air carriers: 1 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 75

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 11,501,244 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 2,089,280,000 mt-km (2018)

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix ET

Airports total: 57 (2013)

country comparison to the world: 82 Airports - with paved runways total: 17

over 3,047 m: 3

2,438 to 3,047 m: 8

1,524 to 2,437 m: 4

under 914 m: 2 (2017)

Airports - with unpaved runways total: 40

2,438 to 3,047 m: 3

1,524 to 2,437 m: 9

914 to 1,523 m: 20

under 914 m: 8 (2013)

Railways total: 659 km (Ethiopian segment of the 756 km Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad) (2017)

standard gauge: 659 km 1.435-m gauge (2017)

note: electric railway with redundant power supplies; under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia and managed by a Chinese contractor

country comparison to the world: 106 Roadways total: 120,171 km (2018)

country comparison to the world: 40 Merchant marine total: 11

by type: general cargo 9, oil tanker 2 (2020)

country comparison to the world: 155 Ports and terminals Ethiopia is landlocked and uses the ports of Djibouti in Djibouti and Berbera in Somalia

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