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Vietnam TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Railroads: Total of 4,250 kilometers of track. Most
important section connects Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Roads: Some 85,000 kilometers of road; of which 9,400
kilometers paved, 48,700 kilometers gravel or improved earth, and
26,900 kilometers unimproved.
Maritime Shipping: 125 vessels, including 80 coastal
freighters, 12 oil tankers, and 15 ocean-going freighters. Total
of thirty-two ports, of which nine major ports. Three largest
located at Da Nang, Haiphong, and Ho Chi Minh City.
Civil Aviation: Controlled by military. Domestic air
service connects Hanoi with Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Pleiku, Da
Lat, Buon Me Thuot, Phu Bai and Nha Trang. Ho Chi Minh City also
connected to Rach Gia, Phu Quoc and Con Son Island. International
air service connects Hanoi with Vientiane, Phnom Penh, Moscow,
and Bangkok. Total of 128 usable airfields, 46 with surfaced
runways.
Telecommunications: Two satellite-ground communications
stations linking Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Moscow, and
integrating Vietnam into Soviet Intersputnik Communication
Satellite Organization.
Data as of December 1987
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