Editing Guinea (section)

== Transport ==
{{Main|Transport in Guinea}}

[[Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport]] is the largest airport in the country, with flights to other cities in Africa and to Europe.

Built between 1904 and 1910, a railway once linked Conakry to [[Kankan]] via [[Kouroussa]] ceased operating in 1995<ref>{{Cite news
 |url          = http://guineenews.org/kankan-le-chemin-de-fer-conakry-niger-a-quand-sa-rehabilitation/
 |author       = Amadou Timbo Barry
 |title        = Kankan : Le chemin de fer Conakry-Niger à quand sa réhabilitation ?
 |date         = 14 May 2015
 |publisher    = Guinee News
 |url-status   = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20160915153034/http://guineenews.org/kankan-le-chemin-de-fer-conakry-niger-a-quand-sa-rehabilitation/
 |archive-date = 15 September 2016
 |df           = dmy-all
}}</ref> and had been dismantled altogether by 2007 with rails mostly stolen or sold for scrap. Plans had at one time been mooted for the passenger line to be rehabilitated as part of an iron-ore development master plan and while the start of work was announced in 2010, corruption charges led the whole master plan to be paused and the line was rebuilt as a 105&nbsp;km mineral railway, paralleling the older route as far as the mines of [[Kalia, Faranah|Kalia]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.planete-tp.com/IMG/pdf/cdf_ao-ae_vnrweb_cle13f153.pdf| title = Georges Pilot's history of railways in West Africa (in French)| access-date = 2 January 2021| archive-date = 27 July 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210727060957/http://www.planete-tp.com/IMG/pdf/cdf_ao-ae_vnrweb_cle13f153.pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref> There is a state run mineral railway linking the bauxite mines of [[Sangarédi]] to the port of [[Kamsar]] (137&nbsp;km) and a 1960s narrow-gauge line operated by Russian aluminium producer [[RusAl]] to the mines at [[Fria]] (143&nbsp;km).

As part of the plans to restart iron ore mining at [[Simandou]] blocks 1 and 2, the new development consortium pledged in 2019 to fund the construction of a new heavy-duty [[standard gauge]] railway to [[Matakong]] on the Atlantic coast where they would invest some US$20&nbsp;billion in developing a deepwater port.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.africa-confidential.com/article-preview/id/12816/Iron_back_on_track| title = Africa Confidential December 2019}}</ref> The 650&nbsp;km route is longer than an alternative heading south to the port of [[Buchanan, Liberia]], which was considered as an alternative in an October 2019 feasibility study.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights/trending/LjaSYcEdRjnMwG4RserstA2| title = SP Global report, November 2019}}</ref>