Lebanon Transportation Profile 2012

Lebanon has some 6,970 km (about 4580 mi) of roads, which were used by more than 470,000 motor vehicles registered in the early 1980s. The country also has about 415 km (about 260 mi) of railroads, but both rail and air service have been crippled by civil war. Many foreign shipping lines formerly used port facilities at Bayrut and Tripoli. Lebanon has about 200 merchant ships with a total deadweight tonnage of 634,500.