Transportation in Mauritania: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Railways:
total: 704 km (single track, standard gauge); owned and operated by government mining company S.N.I.M.; one of the world's longest trains runs here, up to 2.5 km long, with more than 200 wagons mainly transporting iron ore, and some carriages for passengers; alternatively, people sit on top of the iron piles ([1], [2], [3]; maps: [4], [5]). The railway ends at the port of Nouadhibou/Cansado.

Highways:
total: 7,720 km
paved: 830 km
unpaved: 6,890 km (2000)

Waterways: mostly ferry traffic on the Senegal River

Ports and harbors: Bogue, Kaedi, Nouadhibou, Nouakchott, Rosso

Merchant marine: none (2002)

Airports: 26 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 9
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6 (2002)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 17
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 3 (2002)

See also : Mauritania