Rwanda is a landlocked country, there is no seaport and no fleet of ships, only waterway transportation and fishing boats can be seen occasionally on KIVU Lake, which is conveniently located between Rwanda and DRC, and there is no fixed timetable for this kind of transportation, which is usually chartered service.
Rwanda's import and export goods mainly through three sea outlets, one is from Kigali through Uganda to the port of Mombasa, Kenya, a total of 1,721 kilometers; the second is from Kigali to Burundi's Bujumbura, and then by water through the Tanzanian Kigoma to the railroad to the port of Dar-es-Salaam, the total distance of 1,762 kilometers; the third is from Kigali to Rusumo through the Tanzanian Ithaka to the railroad to the Dar es Salaam port, which is 1,638 kilometers long. Before the war, the national airline had a Boeing 707 cargo plane and several small passenger planes with regular flights to Tanzania, Burundi and Zaire. The capital has an international airport, which can take off and land large passenger planes such as the Boeing 747. Belgian, French, Ethiopian, Kenyan, Tanzanian, Cameroonian, Burundian, and Zairian airlines have flights in Rwanda. Rwandan air transportation was interrupted for a time during the civil war. Kigali International Airport reopened soon after the war. Belgian airlines resumed flights to Rwanda, and Kampala, Nairobi and Bujumbura can be reached very easily from Kigali. Rwanda's national airline, Air Rwanda, has a small 20-seat passenger plane that flies mainly from Kigali to Kampala as well as Bujumbura and Dar es Salaam. in 1998, Rwanda's national airline changed its name to Rwandan United Airways, and was partially privatized. in January, Rwanda Airways, a privately owned airline with a 78-seat Boeing jet, was established. in 2002, Rwanda Airways was established as the first private airline. -Rwanda Airlines.In 2002, Rwanda announced the creation of RwandAir Express, which has a Boeing 737-600.In March 2009, the name was changed to Rwandair, and there are flights through Rwanda from Belgium, South Africa, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Congo (Brazzaville).In 2012, South African Airlines, Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines entered the Rwandan aviation market in 2012.