France - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Airports:

476 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 292
over 3,047 m: 14
2,438 to 3,047 m: 27
1,524 to 2,437 m: 97
914 to 1,523 m: 80
under 914 m: 74 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 184
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 72
under 914 m: 108 (2007)

Heliports:

3 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 14,665 km; oil 3,032 km; refined products 4,947 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 29,370 km
standard gauge: 29,203 km 1.435-m gauge (14,778 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:

total: 950,985 km
paved: 950,985 km (metropolitan France; includes 10,490 km of expressways)
note: there are another 5,083 km of roadways in overseas departments (2005)

Waterways:

metropolitan France: 8,500 km (1,686 km accessible to craft of 3,000 metric tons)
French Guiana: 3,760 km (460 km navigable by small oceangoing vessels and coastal and river steamers, 3,300 km by native craft) (2006)

Merchant marine:

total: 138 ships (1000 GRT or over) 5,738,051 GRT/7,497,671 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo 1, chemical tanker 32, container 25, liquefied gas 13, passenger 3, passenger/cargo 33, petroleum tanker 22, roll on/roll off 7
foreign-owned: 35 (Belgium 6, China 5, Denmark 2, Germany 1, Italy 2, Japan 1, Norway 3, NZ 1, Saudi Arabia 1, Singapore 2, Sweden 9, Switzerland 2)
registered in other countries: 128 (Antigua and Barbuda 1, Australia 1, Bahamas 30, Belgium 2, Bermuda 1, Indonesia 1, Isle of Man 1, Italy 2, Liberia 4, Luxembourg 17, Malta 5, Morocco 14, Netherlands 1, Norway 3, Panama 10, Singapore 1, St Vincent and the Grenadines 6, Taiwan 1, UK 21, Wallis and Futuna 6) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Bordeaux, Calais, Dunkerque, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes, Paris, Rouen, Strasbourg