Roads: Between 16,000 and 21,000 kilometers of road network suitable for motor traffic 6,700 kilometers of main roads. In the mountainous north, communications still mostly by pack ponies or donkeys. Private cars not permitted until the second half of 1990 bicycles and mules widely used. Railroads: Total of 543 kilometers, all single track, 509 kilometers in 1.435-meter standard gauge thirty-four kilometers in narrow gauge. Work on the Yugoslav section of the fifty-kilometer line between Shkodėr and Titograd was completed in late 1985 the line opened to freight traffic in September 1986. Aviation: Scheduled flights from Rinas Airport, twentyeight kilometers from Tiranė to many major European cities. No regular internal air service. Shipping: In 1986 Albania had twenty merchant ships, with a total displacement of about 56,000 gross tons. Main ports were Durrės, Vlorė, Sarandė and Shėngjin. Completion of the new port near Vlorė by early 1990s will allow a cargo-handling capacity of 4 million tons per year. Data as of April 1992
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