Railways: total: 32,175 km standard gauge: 32,008 km 1.435-m gauge (14,320 km electrified) narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (2003)

Highways: total: 894,000 km paved: 894,000 km (including 11,500 km of expressways) unpaved: 0 km (2000)

Waterways: 8,500 km (1,686 km accessible to craft of 3,000 metric tons) (2000)

Pipelines: gas 13,946 km; oil 3,024 km; refined products 4,889 km (2003)

Ports and harbors: Bordeaux, Boulogne, Cherbourg, Dijon, Dunkerque, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Mulhouse, Nantes, Paris, Rouen, Saint Nazaire, Saint Malo, Strasbourg (2003)

Merchant marine: total: 32 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 703,639 GRT/889,705 DWT by type: cargo 3, chemical tanker 6, container 2, liquefied gas 4, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 10, roll on/roll off 2, short-sea/passenger 4 foreign-owned: Germany 1, Monaco 2, New Caledonia 1, Sweden 5 registered in other countries: 118 (2003 est.)

Airports: 477 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 281 over 3,047 m: 13 2,438 to 3,047 m: 28 1,524 to 2,437 m: 95 914 to 1,523 m: 82 under 914 m: 63 (2003 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 196 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 70 under 914 m: 123 (2003 est.)

Heliports: 3 (2003 est.)

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