throughout the year by boats with
drafts up to 0.9 meters; numerous minor waterways serve
shallow-draft native craft

Togo:
50 km (Mono river)

Tokelau:
none

Tonga:
none

Trinidad and Tobago:
none

Tromelin Island:
none

Tunisia:
none

Turkey:
1,200 km (approximately)

Turkmenistan:
the Amu Darya is an important inland waterway for
Turkmenistan

Turks and Caicos Islands:
none

Tuvalu:
none

Uganda:
Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, Lake George, Lake
Edward, Victoria Nile, Albert Nile

Ukraine:
4,499 km

note: (1,672 km are on the Pryp'yat' and Dnistr) (1990)

United Arab Emirates:
none

United Kingdom:
3,200 km

United States:
41,009 km

note: navigable inland channels, exclusive of the Great Lakes

Uruguay:
1,600 km ( used by coastal and shallow-draft river craft)

Uzbekistan:
1,100 km (1990)

Vanuatu:
none

Venezuela:
7,100 km

note: Rio Orinoco and Lago de Maracaibo accept oceangoing vessels

Vietnam:
17,702 km

note: more than 5,149 km are navigable at all times by vessels up
to 1.8 m draft

Virgin Islands:
none

Wake Island:
none

Wallis and Futuna:
none

West Bank:
none

Western Sahara:
none

Yemen:
none

Yugoslavia:
587 km

note: The Danube River, which connects Europe with the Black Sea,
runs through Serbia; since early 2000, a pontoon bridge, replacing a
destroyed conventional bridge, has obstructed river traffic at Novi
Sad; the obstruction can be bypassed by a canal system but
inadequate lock size limits the size of vessels which may pass (2001)

Zambia:
2,250 km

note: includes Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi and Luapula rivers

Zimbabwe:
the Mazoe and Zambezi rivers are used for transporting
chrome ore from Harare to Mozambique

Taiwan:
NA

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Appendix A: Abbreviations

ABEDA: Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa

ACC: Arab Cooperation Council

ACCT: Agency for the French-Speaking Community

ACP Group: African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States

AfDB: African Development Bank

AFESD: Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development

Air Pollution: Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides: Protocol to the 1979 Convention on
Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Cont