The transport in the modern Cyprus goes back to the 1900s when the British revamped the Famagusta port. Shipping became the main transport once again in Cyprus after a tough 3 hundred years from the Ottomans. In the 1930s, the British built a railway link between Nicosia and Famagusta for passengers and supplies but only ran for 20 years. Also in the 30s with the technology of planes rising, the British opened Nicosia Airfield to be their main airfield of the island and became their operational airport for civilians in 1947.

By 1960 when the independence of Cyprus was declared, Nicosia Airfield became the new government’s main airport and Famagusta became the government’s main sea port. By 1966 the airport started getting busy with more tourists arriving every year forcing the RAF to leave giving more space to the airport and going to the Akrotiri Airfield, the only British one left on the island. By 1968 a new terminal building was built further north of the old one with a new apron and runway which became the new main airport of the island. By 1973 the government opened Limassol port to take pressure of Famagusta port. In 1974 the Turkish invasion bombed the airport and captured the sea port in Famagusta cutting off Cyprus to the outside world.

In 1975 an old airfield in Larnaca which was used by the RAF in the 1930s was the only airfield left in territory which wasn’t occupied by the Turks to become the new airport which opened in February of that year.
Limassol port took over the shipping from Famagusta and Nicosia airport was giving to the UN on the condition that it would be returned once a solution comes. For now it sits in the buffer zone and remains closed to this day.

In 1983 Paphos airport opened not just to take pressure off Larnaca airport but because of the distance from Larnaca being 84 miles.

The first motorway was linked between Nicosia and Limassol. Not long after Larnaca became the next town to be linked for having the new airport and also its own sea port. Now all the main towns and resorts in Cyprus are all liked up with motorways and a lot of main roads have been improved making Cyprus one of the best countries in the EU with good motorways.