Ethiopian minister commends Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti electrified railway

Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia Tan Jian, who started his ambassadorial tenure in the east African country in December 2017, also stressed that the Ethiopia-Djibouti rail line is “a lifeline to landlocked Ethiopia.”……

“There are 13 countries in the world with a population size larger than 100 million. You might have noticed that Ethiopia is the only one with no coastline and sea port. This is the major bottleneck for Ethiopian development, and 95 percent of its trade goes through Djibouti,” the Chinese ambassador affirmed.”

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Ethiopian minister commends Chinese-built Ethiopia-Djibouti electrified railway

Source: Xinhua| 2020-09-18 01:03:55|Editor: huaxia

ADDIS ABABA, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — Ethiopia’s Transport Minister, Dagmawit Moges, on Thursday commended the successful construction and operation of the 756-kms Africa’s first fully electrified trans-boundary Ethiopia-Djibouti standard gauge railway.

Moges made the remarks during the opening ceremony of the Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Development Strategy and Freight Service Introduction Conference held on Thursday on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

The high-level conference was co-hosted by the Ethiopia-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway Share Company and the China Rail Engineering Corporation (CREC) – China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) Joint Venture under the theme of “Ethio-Djibouti Railway – The way to Prosperity.”

“The Ethiopia-Djibouti railway is a flagship of mega projects of three brotherly countries: Ethiopia, Djibouti and China,” the Ethiopian transport minister told the conference.

“Together we accomplished a very significant task of construction of about 756-kms of rail line with major relevant infrastructure, rolling stocks and facilities with the system made open to operation since January 2018,” said Moges.

The Ethiopia-Djibouti electrified railway is the first trans-boundary railway on the African continent.

Contracted by two Chinese companies, the first 320 km of the rail project from Sebeta to Mieso was carried out by CREC, while the remaining 436 km from Mieso to Djibouti port section was built by CCECC.

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