Transport in Somalia
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Transport in Somalia includes a network of highways, and several ports. There are now no railways in Somalia, and the country possesses no merchant marine.
In 1989, before the collapse of the government, the national airline had only one airplane. Now there are approximately fifteen airlines, over sixty aircraft, six international destinations, and more domestic routes in Somalia. Private airlines, including Air Somalia and Daallo Airlines, serve several domestic locations as well as Djibouti, the United Arab Emirates, Paris and London. According to a 2005 World Bank report, the "private airline business in Somalia is now thriving with more than five carriers and price wars between the companies."[1]
Following exponential growth since 1991, Bosaso is the main port today. At nearly 3 million head of goat and sheep in 1999, the northern ports of Bosaso and Berbera accounted for 95 percent of all goat and 52 percent of all sheep exports of East Africa.[2]
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[edit] Adjacent countries
[edit] Railways
A railway used to exist for 114km between Mogadishu and Jawhar around the 1940s. The gauge was 950 mm (3 ft 13⁄8 in). [3]
[edit] Road
Somalia's network of highways is 22,100 km long, 2,608 km of which are paved.
[edit] Pipelines
15 km of pipeline in Somalia carries crude oil.
[edit] Sea
Major ports include Bender Cassim (Boosaaso), Berbera, Kismaayo, Merka and Mogadishu. Somalia does not possess a merchant marine although until the loss of government in the 1990s vessels were registered under a Somali flag of convenience.[4]
[edit] Air
Somalia has 65 landing grounds. Of the seven with paved runways, four have runways longer than 10,000ft (3,000m). The unpaved runways are typically from 3000ft (900m) to 5000ft (1500m) long.
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[edit] References
- ^ "Africa Open for Business". The World Bank. 2005-03-18. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/SOMALIAEXTN/0,,contentMDK:20398872~menuPK:367671~pagePK:141137~piPK:141127~theSitePK:367665,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
- ^ Benjamin Powell, Ryan Ford, Alex Nowrasteh (November 30, 2006). "Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?". http://www.independent.org/pdf/working_papers/64_somalia.pdf.
- ^ See Italian Somalians
- ^ http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/shipping/416713-1.html
