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Article: Ethiopia should containerize.
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- African Business
- Article date:
- June 1, 1994
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The UK firm Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick has just completed a comprehensive survey and analysis of the transportation of import and export cargoes in Ethiopia, now that the independence of Eritrea has transformed Ethiopia into a landlocked country. The study was a diagnostic analysis of the current situation, aimed at identifying what constraints stand in the way of development of containerisation and multimodal transport.
Prior to 1991, Ethiopia had a long coastline on the Red Sea, with two deep-water ports, at Assab and Massawa. Projects were due to commence in 1991 at Assab and in Addis Ababa, designed to cater for the growing level demand for container traffic. At ...