ble; relatively unimportant to national
economy, used by shallow-draft craft limited to 300 metric-ton cargo
capacity

Pipelines: crude oil 22 km; petroleum products 58 km

Ports: Aveiro, Funchal (Madeira Islands), Horta (Azores), Leixoes,
Lisbon, Porto, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Praia da Vitoria (Azores),
Setubal, Viana do Castelo

Merchant marine:
total: 72 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 795,725 GRT/1,418,538
DWT
ships by type: bulk 7, cargo 35, chemical tanker 5, container 5,
liquefied gas tanker 4, oil tanker 12, passenger-cargo 1,
refrigerated cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1, short-sea passenger 1
note: Portugal has created a captive register on Madeira for
Portuguese-owned ships; ships on the Madeira Register (MAR) will
have taxation and crewing benefits of a flag of convenience;
Portugal owns an additional 25 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
155,776 DWT operating under the registries of Panama and Malta (1995
est.)

Airports:
total: 67
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 5
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 8
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 3
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 18
with paved runways under 914 m: 30
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 3 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 2,236,411 (1993 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: generally adequate integrated network of coaxial cables,
open wire, microwave radio relay, and domestic satellite earth
stations
international: 6 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3
Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat;
tropospheric scatter to Azores; note - an earth station for Inmarsat
(Atlantic Ocean Region) is planned

Radio broadcast stations: AM 57, FM 66 (repeaters 22), shortwave 0

Radios: 2.2 million (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 66 (repeaters 23)

Televisions: 2,970,892 (1993 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force, National
Republican Guard, Fiscal Guard, Public Security Police

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 2,498,965
males fit for military service: 2,014,653
males reach military age (20) annually: 83,427 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $1.9 billion,
2.4% of GDP (1995)

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