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Nationaal Vervoer Bedrijf (NVB) — Suriname public bus and boat service

NVB (Nationaal Vervoer Bedrijf), Havenlaan West 2, is Suriname's state bus and boat company: more than sixty bus routes across eight districts, boat services in Marowijne, Commewijne and Brokopondo, daytime buses and a night bus 21:00–02:00 from Heiligenweg. Route timetables are not published online; nvbnv.sr.

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Best for budget travellers, long-stay visitors.

NVB is Suriname's state-owned public transport company, successor to the Staatsbusdienst, operating under the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Tourism. Its network covers more than sixty bus routes across eight districts (Paramaribo, Wanica, Para, Saramacca, Sipaliwini, Brokopondo, Marowijne and Nickerie), plus boat services in Marowijne, Commewijne and Brokopondo.

The detail most useful to a visitor is the night bus: it runs from 21:00 to 02:00, starting and ending at Heiligenweg in central Paramaribo, via Zanderij, the Martin Luther King Highway, 4e rijweg, Wilhelminastraat and Tamanredjo.

What the government's page does not give, and what we therefore do not print, is a fare table, a route-by-route timetable or a phone number. Note also that NVB is only part of the picture: much of Paramaribo's everyday public transport is run by privately operated minibuses alongside the state service, and we have not found any official source describing those.

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Information on this page is sourced from Government of Suriname (gov.sr), Nationaal Vervoer Bedrijf N.V..

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