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			 Railways: 
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				total: 45,514 km (21,000 km electrified) 
			 standard gauge: 45,276 km 1.435-m gauge (20,084 km electrified) 
			 narrow gauge: 214 km 1.000-m gauge (16 km electrified); 24 km 0.750-m gauge (2002) 
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				 Highways: 
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					total: 230,735 km 
			 paved: 230,735 km (including 11,515 km of expressways) 
			 unpaved: 0 km (1999) 
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				 Waterways: 
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				7,500 km 
			 note: major rivers include the Rhine and Elbe; Kiel Canal is an important connection between the Baltic Sea and North Sea (1999) 
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				 Pipelines: 
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				condensate 325 km; gas 25,289 km; oil 3,743 km; refined products 3,827 km (2003) 
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				 Ports and harbors: 
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				Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cologne, Dresden, Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Luebeck, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart 
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				 Merchant marine: 
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					total: 337 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 6,036,397 GRT/7,334,067 DWT 
			 ships by type: cargo 94, chemical tanker 15, container 203, liquefied gas 3, passenger 3, petroleum tanker 5, railcar carrier 2, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 4, short-sea passenger 7 
			 note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Chile 1, Finland 5, Iceland 1, Netherlands 3, Switzerland 1 (2002 est.) 
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				 Airports: 
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				551 (2002) 
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				 Airports - with paved runways: 
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					total: 328 
			 over 3,047 m: 11 
			 2,438 to 3,047 m: 54 
			 914 to 1,523 m: 69 
			 under 914 m: 131 (2002) 
			 1,524 to 2,437 m: 63 
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				 Airports - with unpaved runways: 
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					total: 223 
			 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 
			 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 
			 under 914 m: 189 (2002) 
			 914 to 1,523 m: 31 
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				 Heliports: 
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				40 (2002)   
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