• Main international airport: Punta Cana International, Higüey (2.58m passengers)
• Merchant fleet, total tonnage: 20 ships (12800 grt)

The transportation network

• Extent of inland waterways navigable by commercial craft: () (None)
• Extent of national paved road network: 3174 km (1972 miles)
• Extent of motorways, freeways or major national highways: () (None)
• Extent of commercial rail network: 517 km (321 miles)

Urban and rural transportation is poor; railroads are mainly for transporting sugarcane and ores. An international consortium in 1999 won a 30-year concession to operate four airports.

Relations with Haiti, with which it shares the island of Hispaniola, are the dominant regional issue: there are some 300,000 Haitian illegal immigrants in the Dominican Republic.