Transport in Guinea


Transport in Guinea is composed by a variety of systems that people in the country use to get around as well as to and from domestic and international destinations.
The railway from Conakry to Kankan ceased operating in the mid-1980s.
Domestic air services are intermittent. Most vehicles in Guinea are 20+ years old, and cabs are any four-door vehicle which the owner has designated as being for hire.
Locals, nearly entirely without vehicles of their own, rely upon these taxis and small buses to take them around town and across the country. There is some river traffic on the Niger and Milo rivers. Horses and donkeys pull carts, primarily to transport construction materials.
Iron mining at Simandou in the southeast beginning in 2007 and at Kalia in the east is likely to result in the construction of a new heavy-duty standard gauge railway and deepwater port. Iron mining at Simandou will load to a new port near Buchanan, Liberia, in exchange for which rehabilitation of the Conakry to Kankan line will occur.
Conakry International Airport is the largest airport in the country, with flights to other cities in Africa as well as to Europe.

Railways

total:
1,086 km
standard gauge:
279 km gauge
metre gauge:
807 km gauge
The lines do not all connect.

Cities served by rail

Proposed North Trans-Guinean Railway

This 135 km long Standard Gauge railway connects bauxite mines at Boffa with a new port at Boké, both places in the north of Guinea.
A Joint Venture has already launched the $US 3bn Boffa – Boké Project which a 135km line from the Dapilon River Terminal to new mining areas of Santou II and Houda.
See:

Northern line

This line is gauge and carries about per annum.
This line is gauge and head off in a northwestern direction.
This line is gauge. Conversion to gauge has been proposed.
This line is.
This line is and parallels the Southern line.
The heavy duty Transguinean Railways is about 650 km long and would be . It goes from iron ore mines in the south east and bauxite mines in the north to a new port a Matakong.

2008

total:
30,500 km
paved:
5,033 km
unpaved:
25,467 km
The Trans–West African Coastal Highway crosses Guinea, connecting it to Bissau, and when construction in Sierra Leone and Liberia is complete, to a total of 13 other nations of the Economic Community of West African States.

Waterways

1,295 km navigable by shallow-draft native craft

Ports and harbors

none

Airports

15

Airports - with paved runways

total:
over 3,047 m:
2,438 to 3,047 m:
1,524 to 2,437 m:
3
The airport code for the capital, Conakry, is CKY.

Airports - with unpaved runways

total:
10
1,524 to 2,437 m:
914 to 1,523 m:
under 914 m:
1