The Ethiopia-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway has recorded an over 51 percent increase in revenue during the first half of 2020 despite the difficulties brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the railway’s managing entity said on Friday. Contracted by two Chinese companies, the railway, which is considered to be Africa’s first fully electrified trans-boundary railway, has made “consistent progress” since its operation commencement in January 2018, according to figures from the Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Company. According to the Chinese managing joint venture office, the supplementary facilities installed by the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway are being improved and fostering a better future. The Ethiopia-Djibouti railway presently provides different kinds of freight services including the transportation of perishable goods, vehicles, cereals and fertilizers at Indode, Mojo, Adama, and Nagad stations. Ethiopia’s Transport Minister, Dagmawit Moges, stressed that the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway “is a flagship of mega projects of three brotherly countries: Ethiopia, Djibouti and China.”

Source: Ethiopian News September 18, 2020 16:30 UTC