Transport in Belarus consists of an extensive network of railways, roads, inland waterways, pipelines, and airports that support domestic travel and international transit. Owing to its central location in Eastern Europe, Belarus serves as an important transport corridor between Russia and the European Union, with rail and road transport playing a particularly significant role. Railways
Rail transport in Belarus is operated by Belarusskaya ChyhunkaBŽD / Белорусская Железная Дорога official site total:
country comparison to the world: 32 broad gauge: of gauge ( electrified) (2006)
City with underground railway system: Minsk, see Minsk Metro For tramway systems: see List of town tramway systems in Belarus
Highways
The owners of highways may be the Republic of Belarus, its political subdivisions, legal and natural persons, who own roads, as well as legal entities, which roads are fixed on the basis of economic or operational management.
Republican state administration in the field of roads and road activity is the Department Belavtodor under the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus.
In total, in Belarus there are more than of roads and of departmental thousand (agriculture, industry, forestry, etc.), including in cities and towns. The density of paved roads has been relatively low – 337 km per 1,000 km2 territory – for comparison, in European countries with well-developed road network, the figure is an average of .
total:
paved: (2003)
Waterways (use limited by location on perimeter of country and by shallowness) (2003) country comparison to the world: 37
Belarus' inland waterways are managed by Dneprobugvodput, Belvodput, and the Dnieper-Berezinsky Enterprise.
Pipelines gas ; oil ; refined products (2008)
Ports and harbors Mazyr - on the river Pripyat
Airports
65 (2008): country comparison to the world: 76
Minsk International Airport Minsk-1 Gomel Airport
Airports - with paved runways
total: 35 over : 2 : 22 : 4 : 1 under : 6 (2008)
Airports - with unpaved runways total: 30 : 1 : 1 : 2 under : 26 (2008)
Heliports 1 (2007)Heliports is where helicopter land.
National air-carrier Belavia
See also Transport in the Soviet Union Vehicle registration plates of Belarus
References
External links Automobiles, Trains And Buses - Getting Around Belarus