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Airports	18		[141st of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
Heliports	1		[66th of 99]
Highways > Paved	874 km		[88th of 113]
Highways > Total	4,010 km		[87th of 118]
Highways > Unpaved	3,136 km		[74th of 113]
Merchant marine > Registered in other countries	1		[84th of 118]
Ports and harbors Assab (Aseb), Massawa (Mits'iwa)
Ports and terminals	Assab, Massawa
Rail lines > total route-km	306 km		[103rd of 111]
Railways > Total	306 km		[120th of 220]
Roads, paved > % of total roads	21.8 %		[93rd of 163]
Roads, total network > km	4,010 km		[126th of 172]
Roadways > Paved	874 km		[28th of 81]
Roadways > Total	4,010 km		[31st of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved	3,136 km		[26th of 79]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international Eritrea and Ethiopia agreed to abide by 2002 Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Commission's (EEBC) delimitation decision, but demarcation has been delayed, despite intense international intervention, by Ethiopian insistence that the decision ignored "human geography," made technical errors in the delimitation, and incorrectly awarded Badme, the focus of the 1998-2000 war, and other areas to Eritrea and Eritrea's insistence on not deviating from the commission's decision; UN Peacekeeping Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) continues to monitor a 25km-wide Temporary Security Zone in Eritrea until the demarcation; Sudan accuses Eritrea of supporting Sudanese rebel groups; Eritrea protests Yemeni fishing around the Hanish Islands awarded to Eritrea by the ICJ in 1999
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	64.21 %		[32nd of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports	49.51 %		[8th of 153]
Waterways	0 km		[110th of 165]

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