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Haiti TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Ports: Port-au-Prince leading commercial port,
followed
by Cap-Haïtien, which handled most cruise ship traffic.
Lesser
ports include Miragoâne, Les Cayes, Fort Liberté,
Gonaïves, and
Jérémie.
Railroads: Only rail line used for transporting
sugarcane. No passenger rail service.
Roads: Over 3,700 kilometers of roads in 1989,
17
percent paved, 27 percent gravel or otherwise improved,
and 56
percent unimproved dirt roads. Two paved highways linked
northern
and southern regions.
Airports: One international airport at
Port-au-Prince.
Eleven other airfields of varying quality.
Telecommunications: Telephone service highly
concentrated in Port-au-Prince; extremely limited service
in
rural areas. Some 400 telex lines functioning in late
1980s.
Data as of December 1989
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