France
National Transport System
number of registered air carriers: 19 (2020)
inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 553
annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 70,188,028 (2018)
annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 4,443,790,000 mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix
F
Airports
total: 464 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 15
Airports - with paved runways
total: 294
over 3,047 m: 14
2,438 to 3,047 m: 25
1,524 to 2,437 m: 97
914 to 1,523 m: 83
under 914 m: 75 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 170
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 64
under 914 m: 105 (2013)
Heliports
1 (2013)
Pipelines
15322 km gas, 2939 km oil, 5084 km refined products (2013)
Railways
total: 29,640 km (2014)
standard gauge: 29,473 km 1.435-m gauge (15,561 km electrified) (2014)
narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (63 km electrified) (2014)
country comparison to the world: 10
Roadways
total: 1,053,215 km (2011)
urban: 654,201 km (2011)
non-urban: 399,014 km (2011)
country comparison to the world: 7
Waterways
metropolitan France: 8,501 km (1,621 km navigable by craft up to 3,000 metric tons) (2010)
Merchant marine
total: 548
by type: container ship 29, general cargo 50, oil tanker 28, other 441 (2021)
note: includes Monaco
country comparison to the world: 41
Ports and terminals
major seaport(s):
Atlantic Ocean: Brest, Calais, Dunkerque, Le Havre, Nantes
Mediterranean Sea: Marseille
container port(s) (TEUs): Le Havre (2,822,910) (2019)
LNG terminal(s) (import): Fos Cavaou, Fos Tonkin, Montoir de Bretagne
river port(s): Bordeaux (Garronne); Nantes - Saint Nazaire (Loire); Paris, Rouen (Seine); Strasbourg (Rhine)
cruise/ferry port(s): Calais, Cherbourg, Le Havre