Highways:
total: 88,922 km
paved: 61,356 km (including 75 km of expressways)
unpaved: 27,566 km (1990 est.)
Waterways: 1,577 km along west coast; 2.4 m draft vessels maximum
Pipelines: refined products 53 km
Ports: Bergen, Drammen, Flora, Hammerfest, Harstad, Haugesund,
Kristiansand, Larvik, Narvik, Oslo, Porsgrunn, Stavanger, Tromso,
Trondheim
Merchant marine:
total: 712 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 19,278,205
GRT/32,209,679 DWT
ships by type: bulk 114, cargo 98, chemical tanker 83, combination
bulk 10, combination ore/oil 31, container 15, liquefied gas tanker
87, oil tanker 148, passenger 10, passenger-cargo 2, railcar carrier
1, refrigerated cargo 13, roll-on/roll-off cargo 49, short-sea
passenger 21, vehicle carrier 30
note: the government has created an internal register, the Norwegian
International Ship Register (NIS), as a subset of the Norwegian
register; ships on the NIS enjoy many benefits of flags of
convenience and do not have to be crewed by Norwegians (1995 est.)
Airports:
total: 102
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 12
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 13
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 11
with paved runways under 914 m: 60
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 5 (1995 est.)
Heliports: 1 (1995 est.)
Communications ———————
Telephones: 2.39 million (1986 est.)
Telephone system: high-quality domestic and international telephone, telegraph, and telex services domestic: NA domestic satellite earth stations international: 2 buried coaxial cable systems; 4 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations - NA Eutelsat, NA Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regions); note - Norway shares the Inmarsat earth station with the other Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden)