page_title: Transport in Czechoslovakia
section_title: Maritime ports
hierarchical_section_title: Transport in Czechoslovakia / Transport modes / Maritime ports
caption_attribution_description: English: CSA Czech Airlines Boeing 737-400 (OK-DGM) takes off from London Heathrow Airport. Suomi: CSA:n Boeing 737-400 (OK-DGM) lentoonlähdössä Lontoo-Heathrow'n lentoasemalta.
context_page_description: Czechoslovakia was one of Europe's major transit countries for north-south movement. As of 1985, Czechoslovakia had:
  a highly developed transport system consisting of 13,130 kilometres of railway tracks, 73,809 kilometres of roads, and 475 kilometres of inland waterways, according to official sources.
  1,448 kilometres of pipelines for transport of crude oil, 1,500 kilometres for refined products, and 7,500 kilometres for natural gas.
  a total cargo movement of over 99 billion ton-kilometres
  of the nearly 90 billion ton-kilometres of cargo-carrying service performed by public transport, railways handled about 81%, roads 13%, inland waterways 5%, and civil aviation less than 1%.
  The state owned and subsidized the means of transport, and passenger fares were among the lowest in the world.
  Major improvements were made in the transport infrastructure after World War II, particularly with regard to the railways, and the result was a relatively extensive and dense road and railway network. In developing the transport system, the government's primary goal was to facilitate movement of industrial goods; passenger traffic, while not neglected, received secondary consideration.
context_section_description: As a landlocked country, Czechoslovakia has no maritime ports. There were maritime ports rented for 99 years. The last one rented was in Sczetin Poland and Hamburg Germany. Czechoslovakia had an ocean fleet of about 47 cargo ships. The fleet was dissolved and privatized by communist crook Kožený during the 90's after velvet revolution. 
  In the mid-1980s, the country's overseas trade passed through East German, West German, Polish and Yugoslav ports. The Labe and Danube rivers were both navigable in Czechoslovakia. In the 1980s, the Vltava was carrying increasing amounts of traffic and efforts were underway to make it more extensively navigable. Principal river ports were located at Prague, Decin, Komarno and Bratislava.
caption: Czech Airlines Boeing 737-400 takes off in 2008
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