Ireland - Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Airports:

34 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:


total: 15
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 5 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:


total: 19
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 16 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 1,855 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 3,237 km
broad gauge: 1,872 km 1.600-m gauge (37 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish Peat Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting plants) (2006)

Roadways:

total: 96,602 km
paved: 96,602 km (includes 200 km of expressways) (2003)

Waterways:

956 km (pleasure craft only) (2007)

Merchant marine:

total: 28 ships (1000 GRT or over) 118,308 GRT/166,218 DWT
by type: cargo 24, chemical tanker 2, container 1, roll on/roll off 1
foreign-owned: 3 (Spain 1, US 2)
registered in other countries: 25 (Bahamas 4, Bermuda 1, Bulgaria 1, Cyprus 3, Germany 1, Isle of Man 1, Netherlands 11, Panama 2, UK 1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Cork, Dublin, Shannon Foynes