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Mauritania
Index
Roads: In late 1980s, only 1,500 kilometers of paved
roadway out of a total 9,000 kilometers of roads. Unpaved roads
generally tracks across the sand. Costs for maintaining sand-free
roads exceeded budgetary means.
Railroads: 650-kilometer standard-gauge single-track
line linked Zouîrât mines with port at Nouadhibou and carried
only iron ore.
Ports: Nouadhibou most important, with facilities for
handling ore, processed fish, and commercial shipping. In late
1986, new Chinese-built Friendship Port with annual capacity of
500,000 tons inaugurated at Nouakchott but not yet operational by
late 1987 because it still lacked certain facilities and
equipment.
Airports: Nouakchott and Nouadhibou most important;
both capable of handling most commercial jet aircraft. Thirty
regional airfields served by Air Mauritanie, national airline.
Communications: Barely adequate system of cable, openwire lines, radiotelephone, and wireless telegraph linked
Nouakchott to Paris, most regional capitals, and some other towns
in Mauritania. Also linked to International Telecommunications
Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) and Arab Satellite
Telecommunications Organization (ARABSAT) networks.
Data as of June 1988
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