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There
are no railways in North Cyprus
and all inter-urban transport
is by road. There are some
7,000 km of roads in the country,
about two-thirds of them paved.
During the 1980s the Turkish
Cypriot authorities have upgraded
the road from Nicosia to Kyrenia
with funds from Turkish and
Saudi sources.
During
the recent years, with financial
aid from Turkey a major upgrading
of the roads began. During this
period, a dual carriageway is
built between Nicosia and the
Ercan Airport, and the main Famagusta-Nicosia
road enlarged and upgraded. Under
the Western Roads programme,
the Nicosia-Güzelyurt (Morphou)
road upgraded, and currently
the Ministry of Transport is
upgrading the Famagusta-Karpas
road, under the Eastern Roads
programme.
In
1977, to facilitate a better air
transport between North Cyprus and
the overseas, the Turkish Cypriot
authorities have upgraded to the
international standards the former
light aircraft strip at Ercan, and
built the country's main airport
there. A second airport has been
constructed at Gecitkale in 1986,
used for commercial traffic when
Ercan Airport had a major upgrading
and extension in that year.
The principal port of the North Cyprus,
Famagusta has 1,280 metres of quays
with drought ranging from 6.7 metres to 11 metres. Some 555,000 sq metres
of the outer harbour have been turned into an industrial free trade zone.
At Kalecik Port, in Morphou Bay in the west, there are facilities for conveyor-loaded
or baggage cargoes plues petroleum unloading bays. At Kyrenia, a new ferry
port has been constructed with a drought of 8 metres. There are regular
connections to the southern ports of Turkey, and less often services to
Israel and Syria.
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