@Ukraine:Transportation
Railroads: total: 23,350 km broad gauge: 23,350 km 1.524-m gauge (8,600 km electrified)
Highways: total: 273,700 km paved and graveled: 236,400 km unpaved: earth 37,300 km
Inland waterways: 1,672 km perennially navigable (Pryp''yat' and
Dnipro Rivers)
Pipelines: crude oil 2,010 km; petroleum products 1,920 km; natural
gas 7,800 km (1992)
Ports: Berdyans'k, Illichivs'k, Izmayil, Kerch, Kherson, Kiev (Kyyiv),
Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, Pivdenne, Reni
Merchant marine:
total: 379 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,799,253 GRT/5,071,175
DWT
ships by type: barge carrier 7, bulk 55, cargo 221, chemical tanker 2,
container 20, multifunction large-load carrier 1, oil tanker 10,
passenger 12, passenger-cargo 5, railcar carrier 2, refrigerated cargo
5, roll-on/roll-off cargo 32, short-sea passenger 7
Airports:
total: 706
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 14
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 55
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 34
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 57
with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 7
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 16
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 37
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 476
@Ukraine:Communications
Telephone system: 7,886,000 telephone circuits; about 151.4 telephone
circuits/1,000 persons (1991); the telephone system is inadequate both
for business and for personal use; 3.56 million applications for
telephones had not been satisfied as of January 1991; electronic mail
services have been established in Kiev, Odesa, and Luhans'k by Sprint
local: an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network operates in Kiev
(Kyyiv) and allows direct dialing of international calls through
Kiev's EWSD digital exchange
intercity: NA
international: calls to other CIS countries are carried by land line
or microwave; other international calls to 167 countries are carried
by satellite or by the 150 leased lines through the Moscow gateway
switch; INTELSAT, INMARSAT, and Intersputnik earth stations