l: 151 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 2,961,431 GRT/4,725,267 DWT
by type: bulk 29, cargo 22, chemical tanker 7, combination ore/oil
6, container 12, liquefied gas 12, multi-functional large load
carrier 1, passenger/cargo 5, petroleum tanker 48, roll on/roll off
8, short-sea/passenger 1
foreign-owned: Chile 2, Germany 7, Monaco 9, Panama 1, Spain 7
registered in other countries: 11 (2004 est.)

Airports:
3,803 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 698
over 3,047 m: 7
2,438 to 3,047 m: 23
914 to 1,523 m: 461
under 914 m: 49 (2004 est.)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 158

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 3,438
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 78
under 914 m: 1,780 (2004 est.)
914 to 1,523 m: 1,579

Heliports:
417 (2003 est.)

Military Brazil

Military branches:
Brazilian Army, Brazilian Navy (including Naval Air and Marines),
Brazilian Air Force (FAB)

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
19 years of age for compulsory military service, conscript service
obligation - 12 months; 17 years of age for voluntary service (2001)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 52,100,042 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 34,799,098 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 1,788,495 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$10,439.4 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.1% (2003)

Transnational Issues Brazil

Disputes - international:
unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders
is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and drug trafficking,
and fundraising for extremist organizations; uncontested dispute
with Uruguay over certain islands in the Quarai/Cuareim and
Invernada boundary streams and the resulting tripoint with Argentina

Illicit drugs:
illicit producer of cannabis; minor coca cultivation in the Amazon
region, used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale
eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment
country for Bolivian, Colombian and Peruvian cocaine headed for
Europe and the US; also used by traffickers as a way station for
narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in
drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for
Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian cocaine; illicit narcotics
pro