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Information Technology in Latvia
Transportation Infrastructure

Railways: total: 2,412 km broad gauge: 2,379 km 1.520-m gauge (271 km electrified) (1992)narrow gauge: 33 km 0.750-m gauge (1994)

Merchant marine: total: 24 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 293,799 GRT/440,575 DWT ships by type: cargo 2, oil tanker 18, refrigerated cargo 4 (1997est.)

Airports with paved runways: total: 362,438 to 3,047 m: 61,524 to 2,437 m: 2914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 27 (1994 est.)

Airports with unpaved runways: total: 142,438 to 3,047 m: 2914 to 1,523 m: 2under 914 m: 10 (1994 est.)

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