National air transport system
number of registered air carriers: 3 (2020)
inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 12
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 333,899 (2018)
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 4.6 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix
TN (2016)
Airports
total: 27 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 123
Airports - with paved runways
total: 8 (2017)
over 3,047 m: 2 (2017)
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2017)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 19 (2013)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8 (2013)
914 to 1,523 m: 9 (2013)
under 914 m: 2 (2013)
Pipelines
232 km gas, 4 km liquid petroleum gas, 982 km oil (2013)
Railways
total: 510 km (2014)
narrow gauge: 510 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)
country comparison to the world: 112
Roadways
total: 23,324 km (2017)
paved: 3,111 km (2017)
unpaved: 20,213 km (2017)
note: road network in Congo is composed of 23,324 km of which 17,000 km are classified as national, departmental, and routes of local interest: 6,324 km are non-classified routes
country comparison to the world: 108
Waterways
1,120 km (commercially navigable on Congo and Oubanqui Rivers above Brazzaville; there are many ferries across the river to Kinshasa; the Congo south of Brazzaville-Kinshasa to the coast is not navigable because of rapids, necessitating a rail connection to Pointe Noire; other rivers are used for local traffic only) (2011)
country comparison to the world: 61
Merchant marine
total: 11
by type: general cargo 1, oil tanker 1, other 9 (2020)
country comparison to the world: 153
Ports and terminals
major seaport(s): Pointe-Noire
oil terminal(s): Djeno
river port(s): Brazzaville (Congo)
Impfondo (Oubangi) Ouesso (Sangha) Oyo (Alima)