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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	17.5 million tons/km		[84th of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried	602,200		[91st of 164]
Airports	112		[54th of 247]
Container port traffic	553,013 TEU		[58th of 63]
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
Highways > Paved	2,775 km		[63rd of 113]
Highways > Total	13,603 km		[61st of 118]
Motor vehicles	11 motor vehicles per 100 p		[107th of 134]
Ports and harbors La Ceiba, Puerto Castilla, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela, Puerto Lempira
Ports and terminals La Ceiba, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela
Rail lines > total route-km	699 km		[87th of 111]
Railways > Total	699 km		[104th of 220]
Roads, paved > % of total roads	20.4 %		[95th of 163]
Roads, total network > km	13,600 km		[98th of 172]
Roadways > Paved	2,775 km		[18th of 81]
Roadways > Total	13,600 km		[19th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved	10,825 km		[12th of 79]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international in 1992, ICJ ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras border, and the OAS is assisting with a technical resolution of bolsones; in 2003, the ICJ rejected El Salvador's request to revise its decision on one bolsone; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca with consideration of Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned by the ICJ, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca; Honduras claims Sapodilla Cays off the coast of Belize but agreed to creation of a joint ecological park and Guatemalan corridor in the Caribbean in the failed 2002 Belize-Guatemala Differendum; Nicaragua filed a claim against Honduras in 1999 and against Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over a complex maritime dispute in the Caribbean Sea
Vehicle abundance	3.92 per square km		[76th of 141]
Waterways	465 km		[33rd of 165]

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