Losing its coast has not stopped Ethiopia developing its shipping

ETHIOPIA became landlocked in 1992, when its Red Sea coast was lost to the new state of Eritrea. It lost access to its former ports soon afterwards. Since the outbreak of a vicious two-year war between the two countries in 1998, the Red Sea ports of Massawa and Assab have been off-limits to Ethiopian . . . →

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Ethiopian Shipping Enterprise Leadership Appointments Announced

Although Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Enterprise(ELSE) appointments are well underway Mr. Ambachew Abraha the managing director of the now dissolved Ethiopian Shipping Lines hasn’t yet been selected in the ranks of leadership of Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Enterprise(ELSE). The large enterprise is a recent amalgamation of Ethiopian Shipping Lines, Ethiopian Maritime Transit Services and . . . →

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Ethiopian Shipping Lines to give multimodal transport service to private importers

Addis Ababa, November 18, 2011 (Addis Ababa) – The Ethiopian Shipping Lines SC. announced plan to give a Multimodal Transport Service to private importers.

Company’s Managing Directorate Representative, Yared Shiferaw, Logistics Manager Biruk Dagne and also Shipping Logistics Management Director Kalayu Tessema said in a joint statement they made here on Friday that the . . . →

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Ethiopia to sign Agreement with Djibouti to use Port for Coal Import

Ethiopia is to sign an agreement with Djibouti next month for the use of its Port to ship in and unload coal that the Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise (EPE) plans to import to be used as fuel for cement factories.

Yigzaw Mekonnen, director general of EPE and Mekonnen Abera, head of market research . . . →

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