ollar - 2.7000 (fixed
rate since 1976)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Telephones - main lines in use: 20,500 (1998)

Telephones - mobile cellular: NA

Telephone system: general assessment: adequate system domestic:
islandwide, fully automatic telephone system; VHF/UHF radiotelephone from
Saint Vincent to the other islands of the Grenadines international:
VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to Barbados; new SHF
radiotelephone to Grenada and to Saint Lucia; access to Intelsat earth
station in Martinique through Saint Lucia

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios: 77,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 1 (plus three repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 18,000 (1997)

Internet country code: .vc

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 15 (2000)

Internet users: 3,500 (2001)

Transportation Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Railways: 0 km

Highways: total: 1,040 km paved: 320 km unpaved: 720 km (1996)

Waterways: none

Ports and harbors: Kingstown

Merchant marine: total: 788 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 7,000,660
GRT/10,702,776 DWT ships by type: barge carrier 1, bulk 142, cargo 382,
chemical tanker 24, combination bulk 11, combination ore/oil 3, container
47, liquefied gas 7, livestock carrier 3, multi-functional large-load
carrier 2, passenger 3, petroleum tanker 48, refrigerated cargo 39, roll
on/roll off 52, short-sea passenger 13, specialized tanker 10, vehicle
carrier 1 note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as
a flag of convenience: Albania 1, Anguilla 1, Argentina 1, Australia
2, Bahamas, The 1, Bangladesh 1, Barbados 2, Belgium 4, Bulgaria 14,
Canada 1, Cayman Islands 1, China 135, Colombia 1, Croatia 12, Cyprus 6,
Denmark 16, Egypt 7, Estonia 6, France 27, Germany 12, Greece 156, Guyana
7, Hong Kong 23, Iceland 1, India 11, Indonesia 3, Israel 2, Italy 19,
Japan 1, Kenya 4, Latvia 5, Lebanon 9, Liberia 5, Lithuania 1, Malta 1,
Man, Isle of 1, Marshall Islands 3, Mexico 1, Monaco 6, Netherlands 14,
Netherlands Antilles 1, Nigeria 3, Norway 33, Pakistan 5, Panama 2,
Poland 2, Portugal 2, Puerto Rico 2, Russia 8, Saint Kitts and Nevis 1,
Saudi Arabia 3, Singapore 4, Slovenia 7, South Korea 4, Spain 1, Sweden
6, Switzerland 10, Syria 2, Taiwan 1, Thailand 1, Trinidad and Tobago 1,
Tunisia 1, Turkey 15, Ukraine 8, United Arab Emirates 45, United Kingdom
16, United States 25, Vietnam