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Air transport Frankfurt Airport Terminal 1 Frankfurt International Airport is a major international airport and European transportation hub. Frankfurt Airport ranks among the world's top ten airports and serves 304 flight destinations in 110 countries. It is the airport with the largest number of international destinations served worldwide. Depending on whether total passengers, flights or cargo traffic are used as a measure, it ranks first, second or third in Europe alongside London Heathrow Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport . Germany's second most important international airport is Munich . Other major airports are Berlin Tegel , Berlin Schönefeld , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Cologne-Bonn , Leipzig/Halle and in the future Berlin Brandenburg International Airport . Short distances and the extensive network of motorways and railways make airplanes uncompetitive for travel within Germany. Only about 1% of all distance travelled was by plane in 2002. But due to a declini

Water transport Hamburg Harbour Waterways: 7,500 km (1999); major rivers include the Rhine and Elbe ; Kiel Canal is an important connection between the Baltic Sea and North Sea , the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal links Rotterdam on the North Sea with the Black Sea. Pipelines: crude oil 2,500 km (1998) Ports and harbours: Berlin , Bonn , Brake , Bremen , Bremerhaven , Cologne , Dortmund , Dresden , Duisburg , Emden , Hamburg , Karlsruhe , Kiel , Lübeck , Magdeburg , Mannheim , Oldenburg , Rostock , Stuttgart The port of Hamburg is the largest sea-harbour in Germany and ranks #2 in Europe, #7 worldwide (2004), in total container traffic. Merchant marine:total: 475 ships (with a volume of 1,000 gross register tons (GRT) or over) totaling 6,395,990 GRT/8,014,132 metric tons deadweight (DWT)ships by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo ship 181, chemical tanker 12, container ship 239, Liquified Gas Carrier 2, multi-functional large load carrier 5, passenger ship 2, petroleum tanker 8, rail c

Rail transport InterCityExpress train, Stuttgart Railways: total: 40,826 km, including at least 14,253 km electrified and 14,768 km double- or multiple-tracked (1998) Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) is the major German railway infrastructure and service operator. Though Deutsche Bahn is a private company, the government still holds all shares and therefore Deutsche Bahn can still be called a state-owned company. Since its privatisation in 1994, Deutsche Bahn AG (DB AG) no longer publishes details of the tracks it owns; in addition to the DB AG system there are about 280 privately or locally owned railway companies which own an approximate 3,000 km to 4,000 km of the total tracks and use DB tracks in open access. There are significant differences between the financing of long-distance and short-distance (or local) trains in Germany. While long-distance trains can be run by any railway company, the companies also receive no subsidies from the government; instead, the long-distance trains r

Road and automotive transport Map of the German autobahn network The volume of traffic in Germany, especially goods transportation, is at a very high level due to its central location in Europe. In the past few decades, much of the freight traffic shifted from rail to road, which led the Federal Government to introduce a motor toll for trucks in 2005. Individual road usage increased resulting in a relatively high traffic density to other nations. A further increase of traffic is expected in the future. High-speed vehicular traffic has a long tradition in Germany given that the first freeway ( Autobahn ) in the world, the AVUS , and the world's first automobile were developed and built in Germany. Germany possesses one of the most dense road systems of the world. German motorways have no blanket speed limit . However, posted limits are in place on many dangerous or congested stretches as well as where traffic noise or pollution poses a problem. The German government has had issue