Editing Economy of Equatorial Guinea (section)

== Infrastructure ==
[[File:Aerial view of Malabo Airport.jpeg|thumb|[[Malabo International Airport]] (''Aeropuerto de Malabo'' in Spanish), en [[Punta Europa (Ecuatorial Guinea)|Punta Europa]], island of [[Bioko]]]]

Infrastructure is generally old and in poor condition.<ref name=":0" /> {{asof|2002}}, surface transport is extremely limited, with little more than 700 kilometres of paved roads.<ref name=":0" /> The African Development Bank is helping to improve the paved roads from Malabo to Luba and Riaba; the Chinese are undertaking a project to link Mongomo to Bata on the mainland, and the European Union is financing an inter-states road network linking Equatorial Guinea to Cameroon and Gabon.<ref name=":0" /> Road maintenance is often inadequate.<ref name=":0" />

Electricity is available in Equatorial Guinea's larger towns thanks to three small overworked hydropower facilities and a number of aged generators.<ref name=":0" /> In 1999, national production was about 13 MWh. In [[Malabo]], the American company, CMS-Nomeco, built a 10 megawatt electricity plant financed by the government, which came in line in mid-2000, and plans to double capacity are advancing.<ref name=":0" /> This plant provides improved service to the capital, although there are still occasional outages.<ref name=":0" /> On the mainland the largest city, [[Bata, Equatorial Guinea|Bata]], still has regular blackouts.<ref name=":0" />

[[File:Malabo a 13-oct-01.jpg|thumb|The port of [[Malabo]]]]

Water is only available in the major towns and is not always reliable because of poor maintenance and mismanagement.<ref name=":0" /> Some villages and rural areas are equipped with generators and water pumps, usually owned by private individuals.<ref name=":0" />

Parastatal Getesa, a joint venture with a minority ownership stake held by a French subsidiary of [[Orange S.A.|Orange]], provides telephone service in the major cities.<ref name=":0" /> The regular system is overextended, but Orange has introduced a popular [[GSM]] system, which is generally reliable in Malabo and Bata.<ref name=":0" />

Equatorial Guinea has two of the deepest Atlantic seaports of the region, including the main business and commercial port city of Bata.<ref name=":0" /> The ports of both Malabo and Bata are severely overextended and require extensive rehabilitation and reconditioning.<ref name=":0" /> The British company, Incat, has an ongoing project with the government to renovate and expand Luba, the country's third-largest port which is located on [[Bioko Island]].<ref name=":0" /> The government hopes Luba will become a major transportation hub for offshore oil and gas companies operating in the [[Gulf of Guinea]].<ref name=":0" /> Luba is located some 50 kilometres from Malabo and had been virtually inactive except for minor fishing activities and occasional use to ease congestion in Malabo.<ref name=":0" /> A new jetty is also being built at km 5 on the way from Malabo to the airport.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} It is a project mainly supposed to service the oil industry, but can also relieve the congested Malabo Port due to its closeness. The Oil Jetty at km 5 was supposed to open the end of March 2003. Riaba is the other port of any scale on Bioko but is less active. The continental ports of Mbini and Cogo have deteriorated as well and are now used primarily for timber activities.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}

There are both air and sea connections between the two cities of Malabo and Bata.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} As of 2002, a few aging Soviet-built aircraft constituted the national air fleet.<ref name=":0" /> Since then, most Soviet-built aircraft have been replaced by [[ATR (aircraft manufacturer)|ATR]] and [[Boeing]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} The runway at Malabo (3,200 m) is equipped with lights and can service aircraft similar to [[Boeing 777]]s and [[Ilyushin Il-76]]s.<ref name=":0" /> The one at Bata (2,400 m) does not operate at night but can accommodate aircraft as large as [[Boeing 737]]s. Their primary users are the national airline (EGA) and a private company (GEASA).<ref name=":0" /> Two minor airstrips (800 m) are located at Mongomo and Annobon.<ref name=":0" /> There are international connections out of Malabo to [[Madrid]] and [[Zürich]] in Europe and to [[Cotonou]], [[Douala]] and [[Libreville]] in West Africa.<ref name=":0" />