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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	47.88 million tons/km		[71st of 153]
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Aircraft departures	28,000		[58th of 155]
DEFINITION: Aircraft departures are the number of domestic and international take-offs of air carriers registered in the country.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Container port traffic	440,370 TEU		[59th of 63]
DEFINITION: Port container traffic measures the flow of containers from land to sea transport modes., and vice versa, in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs), a standard-size container. Data refer to coastal shipping as well as international journeys. Transshipment traffic is counted as two lifts at the intermediate port (once to off-load and again as an outbound lift) and includes empty units.		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Left side
DEFINITION: About a quarter of the world drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies. The following is a list of countries of the world and the side of the road the inhabitants drive on. Most of the people driving on the left side of the road use right-hand-drive vehicles and vice-versa.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Highways > Paved	4,252 km		[56th of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the paved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: World standards on users.pandora.be
Highways > Total	8,320 km		[77th of 118]
DEFINITION: total length of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Highways > Unpaved	4,068 km		[70th of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > A note includes a foreign-owned ship registered here as a flag of convenience: United States 1 (2002 est.)
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > Note includes a foreign-owned ship registered here as a flag of convenience: US 1
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003		View time series
Merchant marine > Ships by type cargo 1, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 1, short-sea passenger 1
DEFINITION: Merchant marine may be defined as all ships engaged in the carriage of goods; or all commercial vessels (as opposed to all non-military ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc.; or a grouping of merchant ships by nationality o		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt	8,081 Dwt		[137th of 157]
DEFINITION: Dwt=Deadweight tonnage, a measure of the capacity of a cargo ship		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > Total > GRT	27,599 GRT		[122nd of 157]
DEFINITION: GRT=Gross Register Tonnage		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Motor vehicles	151 motor vehicles per 100 p		[52nd of 134]
DEFINITION: Motor vehicles per 1,000 people
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Pipelines > All types condensate 253 km; gas 1,117 km; oil 478 km (2004)
DEFINITION: The lengths and types of pipelines for transporting products like natural gas, crude oil, or petroleum products"
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Pipelines > Condensate	253 km		[11th of 21]
DEFINITION: Total length of condensate pipelines
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Pipelines > Total length	1,848 km		[70th of 120]
DEFINITION: Total length of all pipelines
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Ports and harbors Pointe-a-Pierre, Point Fortin, Point Lisas, Port-of-Spain, Scarborough, Tembladora
DEFINITION: The major ports and harbors selected on the basis of overall importance to each country. This is determined by evaluating a number of factors (e.g., dollar value of goods handled, gross tonnage, facilities, and military significance).		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Railways	0 km		[23rd of 86]
DEFINITION: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	40.77 %		[83rd of 153]
DEFINITION: Travel services (% of commercial service exports) covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers in that economy for their own use during visits of less than one year for business or personal purposes. Travel services include the goods and services consumed by travelers, such as lodging and meals and transport (within the economy visited).		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Vehicle abundance	28.61 per square km		[28th of 141]
DEFINITION: Vehicles per populated land area Units: Vehicles/Populated Land Area (in km2) Units: Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then utilized this land area as the denominator for the vehicles data.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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