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.[1] Most vehicles in Guinea are 20+ years old, and cabs are any four-door vehicle which the owner has designated as being for hire. Domestic air services are intermittent. Conakry International Airport is the largest airport in the country, with flights to other cities in Africa as well as to Europe.
Locals, nearly entirely without vehicles of their own, rely upon these taxis (which charge per seat) 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 (South) 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 deep-water port. Iron mining at Simandou (North) will load to a new port near Buchanan, Liberia, in exchange for which rehabilitation of the Conakry to Kankan line will occur.
See main article: Rail transport in Guinea. total:1,086 km
standard gauge
279 km gauge
metre gauge
807 km gauge (includes 662 km in common carrier service from Kankan to Conakry)[2]
The lines do not all connect.
See main article: Railway stations in Guinea.
This 125 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 125km line from the Dapilon River Terminal to new mining areas of Santou II and Houda. [3] There are 2 tunnels.
This line opened in 28-06-2021. [4]
See: Boffa-Boke Railway
This line is gauge (standard gauge) and carries about 12000000t per annum.
This line is gauge and head off in a northwestern direction.
This line is gauge. Conversion to gauge has been proposed.[5]
This line is .
This line is and parallels the Southern line.
The heavy duty Transguinean Railways is about 650 km long and would be (standard gauge). It goes from iron ore mines in the south east and bauxite mines in the north to a new port a Matakong.[7]
total:30,500 km
paved:5,033 km
unpaved:25,467 km (1996 est.)
The Trans–West African Coastal Highway crosses Guinea, connecting it to Bissau (Guinea-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 (ECOWAS).
1,295 km navigable by shallow-draft native craft
none (1999 est.)
See main article: List of airports in Guinea. 15 (1999 est.)
total:5
over 3,047 m:1
2,438 to 3,047 m:1
1,524 to 2,437 m:3 (1999 est.)
The airport code for the capital, Conakry, is CKY.
total:10
1,524 to 2,437 m:5
914 to 1,523 m:4
under 914 m:1 (1999 est.)