thumb|right|250px|M1 highway at Orsha

thumb|250px|Rail transport map of Belarus

thumb|250px|Major gas (red) and oil (green) pipelines in Belarus

thumb|right|250px|A Trolleybus in Brest

thumb|right|250px|A ferry crossing the Daugava river in Vitebsk

thumb|right|250px|The autobus station of GomelTransport 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

  • Automobiles, Trains And Buses - Getting Around Belarus