South Africa - Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Airports:

728 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 146
over 3,047 m: 10
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 51
914 to 1,523 m: 67
under 914 m: 13 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 582
1,524 to 2,437 m: 34
914 to 1,523 m: 300
under 914 m: 248 (2007)

Heliports:

1 (2007)

Pipelines:

condensate 100 km; gas 1,177 km; oil 992 km; refined products 1,379 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 20,872 km
narrow gauge: 20,436 km 1.065-m gauge (8,931 km electrified); 436 km 0.610-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:

total: 362,099 km
paved: 73,506 km (includes 239 km of expressways)
unpaved: 288,593 km (2002)

Merchant marine:

total: 1 ship (1000 GRT or over) 27,103 GRT/29,651 DWT
by type: container 1
foreign-owned: 1 (Denmark 1)
registered in other countries: 8 (Bahamas 1, NZ 1, Seychelles 1, St Vincent and the Grenadines 1, UK 4) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Saldanha Bay