Australia National Air Transport System

number of registered air carriers: 25
inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 583
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 69,294,187
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1,887,295,820 mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix:
VH (2016)
Airports:
480 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 16
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 349
over 3,047 m: 11
2,438 to 3,047 m: 14
1,524 to 2,437 m: 155
914 to 1,523 m: 155
under 914 m: 14 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 131
1,524 to 2,437 m: 16
914 to 1,523 m: 101
under 914 m: 14 (2013)
Heliports:
1 (2013)
Pipelines:
condensate/gas 637 km; gas 30,054 km; liquid petroleum gas 240 km; oil 3,609 km; oil/gas/water 110 km; refined products 72 km (2013)
Railways:
total: 33,343 km
broad gauge: 3,247 km 1.600-m gauge (372 km electrified)
standard gauge: 17,446 km 1.435-m gauge (650 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 12,318 km 1.067-m gauge (2,075.5 km electrified)
other gauge: 35 km (2015)
country comparison to the world: 7
Roadways:
total: 873,573 km
urban: 145,928 km
non-urban: 727,645 km (2015)
country comparison to the world: 9
Waterways:
2,000 km (mainly used for recreation on Murray and Murray-Darling River systems) (2011)
country comparison to the world: 42
Merchant marine:
total: 549
by type: bulk carrier 4, general cargo 83, oil tanker 10, other 452 (2017)
country comparison to the world: 39
Ports and terminals:
major seaport(s): Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Fremantle, Geelong, Gladstone, Hobart, Melbourne, Newcastle, Port Adelaide, Port Kembla, Sydney
dry bulk cargo port(s): Dampier (iron ore), Dalrymple Bay (coal), Hay Point (coal), Port Hedland (iron ore), Port Walcott (iron ore)
container port(s) (TEUs): Brisbane (1,152,000), Melbourne (2,638,000), Sydney (2,330,000) (2015)
LNG terminal(s) (export): Darwin, Karratha, Burrup, Curtis Island