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Poland TRANSPORTATION
Railroads: Standard gauge routes totaled 24,287
kilometers 1990, of total 26,644 kilometers in state
network.
Some 11,016 kilometers electrified. Locomotive fleet about
55
percent diesel, 41 percent electric, and 4 percent steam
1990.
Substantial modernization planned for 1990s.
Roads and Road Transport: Of 363,116 kilometers
of
roads 1991, 159,000 kilometers hard surface and 257
kilometers
motorway. Bus routes totaling 121,000 kilometers carried
2.6
million passengers 1989. Passenger cars 4.85 million,
trucks
977,000 in 1989. Irregularities in petroleum import
restrained
road transport periodically in 1980s, early 1990s.
Pipelines: In 1987, operational domestic
pipeline 6,846
kilometers, carrying crude oil, natural gas, and refined
products. Druzhba Pipeline major source of crude oil from
Russia.
Inland Waterways: About 4,000 kilometers
navigable by
regular transport services, 1989. Main systems Vistula (60
percent) and Oder rivers, connected by Kanal Bydgoski in
northcentral Poland. Total canal network 1,215 kilometers.
Major
inland ports Gliwice, Warsaw, and Wroclaw. Inland
waterways
carried 3.8 million passengers, 9.8 million tons of
freight in
1990. Some 69 passenger vessels, 1,380 barges in use 1989.
Ports and Shipping: Four large Baltic harbors:
Gdynia,
Gdansk, Swinoujscie, and Szczecin. In 1989 merchant fleet
had 249
ships, total displacement 4 million deadweight tons,
including 16
over 30,000 tons. Regular lines to London, Asian ports,
Australia, and some African and Latin American countries.
Civil Aviation: State-owned Polish Airlines
(LOT)
operated nine internal, thirty-four international routes
1990,
using Soviet- and United States-made aircraft. Fleet
renovation
began 1990. At Okecie International Airport (Warsaw),
largest
airport, new terminal scheduled 1992. Eighty of 140
airports had
hard-surface runways 1989.
Data as of October 1992
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