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Argentina: Transport

Railways (traffic)

  2005  2006  2007 
Passengers carried (’000)  417,438  437,522  425,760 
Freight carried ('000 tons)  23,441  23,917  24,927 
Passenger-km (million)  8,375  8,796  8,248 
Freight ton-km (million)  12,262  12,628  12,871 

Road Traffic ('000 motor vehicles in use)

  2003  2004  2005 
Passenger cars  4,668  4,926  5,230 
Commercial vehicles  1,198  1,684  1,775 
Source: UN, Statistical Yearbook

Shipping

Merchant Fleet (registered at 31 December)

  2006  2007  2008 
Number of vessels  565  569  576 
Total displacement ('000 grt)  837.8  838.0  785.3 
Source: Lloyd's Register-Fairplay, World Fleet Statistics

International Sea-borne Freight Traffic ('000 metric tons)

  1996  1997  1998 
Goods loaded  52,068  58,512  69,372 
Goods unloaded  16,728  19,116  19,536 
Goods unloaded: 16,320 in 2004; 22,922 in 2007; 25,836 in 2008.
Source: UN, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
Total maritime freight handled (’000 metric tons): 130,775 in 2003; 135,001 in 2004; 152,921 in 2005; 152,074 in 2006; 168,260 in 2007
Source: Dirección Nacional de Puertos

Civil Aviation

  2005  2006  2007 
Kilometres flown (million)  168  172  178 
Passengers carried ('000)  12,684  12,736  14,735 
Passenger-km (million)  16,547  16,714  19,145 
Total freight carried (’000 metric tons)  193  215  389 

Citation: Transport (Argentina), in Europa World online. London, Routledge. Retrieved 06 September 2010 from http://www.europaworldonline.com/pub/entry/ar.ss.63
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