In 1993, the total length of the road network was 16,000 km, including as follows:
Considerable modernization has taken place since 1985. Recent modernization programs have been adopted involving construction of the Dubreka-Boke (200 km) and the Mamou-Kankan (400 km) roads and the rehabilitation of 500 km. of tarred roads, including the heavily trafficked Conakry-Mamou road. Regarding maritime transport, there are two deep water ports in Guinea: Conakry and Kamsar. Kamsar, which is run by the Guinea Bauxite Company (CBG), is a mineral port constructed in 1973 mainly for the evacuation of their Boke bauxite.
The port of Conakry is accessible to vessels of 20,000 to 25,000 of gross tonnage and handles a considerable volume of bulk traffic. It has now 12 quays:
There are about 90,000 square meters of tarred backfilling and 10,000 square meters of covered sheds for the storage of general goods and containers. These sheds and a good part of the backfilling have been rehabilitated and are in good condition. The Conakry Port Authority (PAC) manages and runs port operations and equipment with the exception of the oil quays which have been assigned to mining companies. Importers and exporters can freely select freight forwarders and customs agents among several private companies. To improve port capacity and efficiency, a $60 million Conakry Port Extension and Rehabilitation Pxoject was completed in December l991.
Guinea has ten airports including the Conakry Internationa1 Airport at Gbessia, and nine secondary airfields, three of which are tarred. Most of the runways of the secondary airfields are in a precarious condition and are sometimes unusable.
The Conakry airport runway is 3,000 meters long and can receive wide body aircraft of the B-747 type. Air traffic at Conakry airport reached 218,000 passengers in 1989. A semi-public Franco-Guinean company, SOGEAC, has been established to run the Conakry airport and provide assistance to air companies making stopovers. An air navigation agency (ANA) has been established to provide air navigation service and approach and ground safety.
The Guinean rail network comprises four lines, one of which is the inoperational public railroad utility, "Office National du Chemin de Fer Guinean" (ONCFG). The three bauxite companies operate private lines to their sites:
The public network, a single metric line linking Conakry to Kankan (660 km), was commissioned in 1914, and ceased operations during the First Republic. Passenger services no longer exist.
The Ministry of Transport is responsible for the application of the government's land, air, and sea transport policy. The Ministry of Public Works is responsible for drawing up and seeing to the application of the government road, airport, port and other water structures construction program. The Ministry of Plan and International Cooperation is the coordinator of transportation and other donor financed investments.
As noted previously, SOGETRAG, the urban and inter-urban bus transport company, is currently undergoing restructuring and privatization. In May 1995 only 20 buses were operational, all of which were used for suburban routes and charters.
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