Railroads: None. Closest rail terminals Ngaoundéré (Cameroon) and Maiduguri (Nigeria).
Roads: About 7,300 kilometers of partially maintained roads, of which 1,260 kilometers considered all-weather roads; no paved roads in 1987. About 24,000 kilometers of unimproved tracks.
Inland Waterways: Chari and Logone rivers principal branches of approximately 2,000-kilometer-long navigable system.
Ports: None. Closest port at Douala, Cameroon.
Airports: International airport at N'Djamena; smaller airfields at Abéché, Moundou, and Sarh; small dirt strips scattered throughout country.
Telecommunications: One of least developed systems in Africa. All telecommunications passed through Paris.
Data as of December 1988