Currency: 1 Sudanese pound (#Sd) = 100 piastres
Exchange rates: official rate - Sudanese pounds (#Sd) per US$1 - 434.8 (January 1995), 277.8 (1994), 153.8 (1993), 69.4 (1992), 5.4288 (1991), 4.5004 (1990); note - the commercial rate is 300 Sudanese pounds per US$1
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
@Sudan:Transportation
Railroads:
total: 5,516 km
narrow gauge: 4,800 km 1.067-m gauge; 716 km 1.6096-m gauge plantation
line
Highways:
total: 20,703 km
paved: bituminous treated 2,000 km
unpaved: gravel 4,000 km; improved earth 2,304 km; unimproved earth
12,399 km
Inland waterways: 5,310 km navigable
Pipelines: refined products 815 km
Ports: Juba, Khartoum, Kusti, Malakal, Nimule, Port Sudan, Sawakin
Merchant marine:
total: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 43,024 GRT/122,379 DWT
ships by type: cargo 3, roll-on/roll-off cargo 2