by: Enrico Casale | May 17, 2024
The Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway is the primary customary gauge railway in East Africa and a flagship undertaking of the Belt and Road Initiative that has considerably strengthened connectivity between Ethiopia and Djibouti and given a powerful increase to their financial and social growth. This was said by the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin. “A Chinese proverb says: It is extra essential to show individuals to fish than merely to offer them fish. The Ethiopia-Djibouti railway is an effective instance – Wang stated in a press convention -. China has not solely constructed a contemporary railway in cooperation with Ethiopia and Djibouti, but in addition skilled 2,800 native professionals, serving to to construct a superb native crew,” Wang stated.
The Chinese Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Management Consortium lately transferred administration duty to Ethiopia and Djibouti. Since it entered industrial operation on January 1, 2018, the 752 kilometer lengthy Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has organized over 2,500 trains with a passenger quantity of 680,000. In the identical interval, it additionally dealt with greater than 7,700 freight trains, with a cargo quantity of 9.5 million tons, based on information despatched by the Chinese contractor to the Global Times.
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