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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 236
1 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 1
Over 3,047 m 1 (2012) Pipelines
Gas 33 km; oil 62 km; refined products 4 km Roadways World Ranking: 176
Total 1,600 km
Paved 1,600 km (2004) Merchant marine World Ranking: 49
Total 109
By type Bulk carrier 23, cargo 52, chemical tanker 13, container 6, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 8, refrigerated cargo 4, roll on/roll off 1 Foreign-owned 83 (Canada 11, Greece 14, Iran 5, Lebanon 2, Norway 38, Sweden 4, Syria 1, Turkey 1, UAE 1, UK 6) (2010) Ports and terminals
Bridgetown
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The island was uninhabited when first settled by the British in 1627. Slaves worked the sugar plantations established on the island until 1834 when slavery was abolished. The economy remained heavily dependent on sugar, rum, and molasses production through most of the 20th century. The gradual introduction of social and political reforms in the 1940s and 1950s led to complete independence from the UK in 1966. In the 1990s, tourism and manufacturing surpassed the sugar industry in economic importance.