Oil - imports:
NA
Exports:
$1.579 billion f.o.b. (2002)
Exports - commodities:
petroleum products
Exports - partners:
US 20.4%, Panama 11.2%, Guatemala 8.8%, Haiti 7.1%, Bahamas, The
5.6%, Honduras 4.2% (2004)
Imports:
$2.233 billion f.o.b. (2002)
Imports - commodities:
crude petroleum, food, manufactures
Imports - partners:
Venezuela 51.1%, US 21.9%, Netherlands 5% (2004)
Debt - external:
$1.35 billion (1996)
Economic aid - recipient:
IMF provided $61 million in 2000, and the Netherlands continued its
support with $40 million (2000)
Currency (code):
Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG)
Currency code:
ANG
Exchange rates:
Netherlands Antillean guilders per US dollar - 1.79 (2004), 1.79
(2003), 1.79 (2002), 1.79 (2001), 1.79 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Netherlands Antilles
Telephones - main lines in use:
81,000 (2001)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
81,000 (2001)
Telephone system:
general assessment: generally adequate facilities
domestic: extensive interisland microwave radio relay links
international: country code - 599; submarine cables - 2; satellite
earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 8, FM 19, shortwave 0 (2004)
Radios:
217,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
3 (there is also a cable service, which supplies programs received
from various US satellite networks and two Venezuelan channels)
(2004)
Televisions:
69,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.an
Internet hosts:
119 (2001)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
6
Internet users:
2,000 (2000)
Transportation Netherlands Antilles
Highways:
total: 600 km
paved: 300 km
unpaved: 300 km
Ports and harbors:
Bopec Terminal, Fuik Bay, Kralendijk, Willemstad
Merchant marine:
total: 168 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,317,007 GRT/1,668,499 DWT
by type: barge carrier 3, bulk carrier 23, cargo 72, chemical tanker
2, container 21, liquefied gas 6, passenger 2, petroleum tanker 3,
refrigerated cargo 30, roll on/roll off 4, specialized tanker 2
foreign-owned: 158 (Belgium 5, Cyprus 1, Denmark 1, Germany 57, Hong
Kong 3, Netherlands 71, Peru 1, Sweden 9, Turkey 7, United Kingdom
2, United States 1) (2005)
Airports:
5 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
2038 to 3047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
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