Exchange rates: Barbadian dollars (Bds$) per US$1 - 2.0113 (fixed rate)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
@Barbados:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways: total: 1,570 km paved: 1,475 km unpaved: gravel, earth 95 km
Ports: Bridgetown
Merchant marine:
total: 12 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 61,563 GRT/103,632 DWT
ships by type: bulk 4, cargo 6, oil tanker 2
Airports:
total: 1
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
@Barbados:Communications
Telephone system: 89,000 telephones
local: island wide automatic telephone system;
intercity: NA
international: 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth station; tropospheric
scatter link to Trinidad and Saint Lucia