National air transport system:
number of registered air carriers: 1
inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 3
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 267,208
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 0 mt-km (2015)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix:
TJ (2016)
Airports: Airports - with paved runways: Airports - with unpaved runways: Pipelines: Railways: Roadways: Waterways: Merchant marine: Ports and terminals:
33 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 112
[see also: Airports country ranks ]
total: 11
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - total country ranks ]
over 3,047 m: 2
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - over 3,047 m country ranks ]
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - 2,438 to 3,047 m country ranks ]
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - 1,524 to 2,437 m country ranks ]
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2017)
[see also: Airports - with paved runways - 914 to 1,523 m country ranks ]
total: 22
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - total country ranks ]
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - 1,524 to 2,437 m country ranks ]
914 to 1,523 m: 10
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - 914 to 1,523 m country ranks ]
under 914 m: 8 (2013)
[see also: Airports - with unpaved runways - under 914 m country ranks ]
gas 53 km; liquid petroleum gas 5 km; oil 1,107 km; water 35 km (2013)
total: 987 km
[see also: Railways - total country ranks ]
narrow gauge: 987 km 1.000-m gauge
note: railway connections generally efficient but limited; rail lines connect major cities of Douala, Yaounde, Ngaoundere, and Garoua; passenger and freight service provided by CAMRAIL (2014)
country comparison to the world: 90
total: 51,350 km
[see also: Roadways - total country ranks ]
paved: 4,108 km
[see also: Roadways - paved country ranks ]
unpaved: 47,242 km
[see also: Roadways - unpaved country ranks ]
note: there are 28,857 km of national roads (2011)
country comparison to the world: 78
(major rivers in the south, such as the Wouri and the Sanaga, are largely non-navigable; in the north, the Benue, which connects through Nigeria to the Niger River, is navigable in the rainy season only to the port of Garoua) (2010)
[see also: Waterways country ranks ]
total: 19
[see also: Merchant marine - total country ranks ]
by type: general cargo 4, other 15 (2017)
river port(s): Douala (Wouri); Garoua (Benoue)
oil terminal(s): Limboh Terminal