Transport in Ukraine
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[edit] Railways
Operated by the state railway company, Ukrzaliznytsia (except for industrial railways and metros in cities).
Network length: (1994)
- 23,350 km broad gauge (1520 mm), 9,000 km electrified (3 kV DC and 25 kV AC)
- 201 km standard gauge (1435 mm), electrified
[edit] Rail links with adjacent countries
- Belarus
- Russia
- Moldova
- Romania (break-of-gauge: 1520 mm / 1435 mm)
- Hungary (break-of-gauge: 1520 mm / 1435 mm)
- Slovakia (break-of-gauge: 1520 mm / 1435 mm)
- Poland (break-of-gauge: 1520 mm / 1435 mm plus a standard gauge cross-border cargo line)
[edit] Maps
[edit] Cities with Rapid transit (Metro) systems
[edit] Highways
- Total: 169,477 km
- Paved: 164,732 km (including 15 km of expressways); note - these roads, classified as "hard-surfaced", include both hard-paved highways and some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads.
- Unpaved: 4,745 km (2004)
[edit] Waterways
4,400 km navigable waterways on 7 rivers, most of them are on Danube, Dnieper and Pripyat rivers. All Ukraine's rivers freeze over in winter (usually December through March), interrupting navigation.
[edit] Danube waterway
The most important waterway of Ukraine.
[edit] Notable riverports on Danube
[edit] Dnieper waterway
Dnieper within Ukraine is a regulated system of reservoirs separated by dams with shiplocks. The river is navigable through all its Ukrainian length.
[edit] Notable riverports on Dnieper
[edit] Pripyat waterway
Notable riverport Chornobyl is now abandoned due to the Chernobyl disaster, but the waterway retains its importance as part of Dnieper-Baltic Sea route.
[edit] Pipelines
- natural gas 33,721 km (2007)
- crude oil 4,514 km (2007)
- petroleum products 4,211 km (2007)
- ammonia
[edit] Ports and harbours
[edit] Major seaports
- Berdyansk (Sea of Azov)
- Illichivsk (Black Sea)
- Kerch (Black Sea)
- Mariupol (Sea of Azov)
- Mykolayiv (Black Sea)
- Odessa (Black Sea)
- Sevastopol (Black Sea)
- Skadovsk (Black Sea)
- Theodosia (Black Sea)
- Yalta (Black Sea)
[edit] Other notable seaports
- Donuzlav (Black Sea)
- Chornomorske (Black Sea)
- Henichesk (Sea of Azov)
- Kherson (Black Sea)
- Ochakiv (Black Sea)
- Eupatoria (Black Sea)
- Yuzhny (Black Sea)
[edit] Merchant marine
- Total: 193 ships (1,000 gross register tons (GRT) or over) totaling 862,690 GRT/963,550 metric tons of deadweight (DWT)
- Ships by type: bulk carrier 6, cargo ship 145, container ship 3, passenger ship 6, passenger/cargo ship 4, petroleum tanker 9, refrigerated cargo ship 11, roll-on/roll-off 7, specialized tanker 2 (2007)
[edit] Airports
- Total: 437 (2007)
[edit] Airports - with paved runways
- Total: 193
- Over 3,047 m: 13
- 2,438 to 3,047 m: 53
- 1,524 to 2,437 m: 27
- 914 to 1,523 m: 5
- Under 914 m: 95 (2007)
Major airports are: Boryspil Airport, Dnipropetrovsk Airport, Donetsk Airport, Odessa Airport, and Simferopol Airport.
[edit] Airports - with unpaved runways
- Total: 244
- 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
- 1,524 to 2,437 m: 11
- 914 to 1,523 m: 13
- Under 914 m: 217 (2007)
[edit] See also
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[edit] References
- ^ Railway Gazette International April 2008 p 240
