ADDIS ABABA－With the help of a Chinese construction company's "commendable work efficiency", the Ethiopian government aspires to improve the country's fuel distribution network with the timely completion of a Chinese-contracted railway project, said an official. In an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency, Tadesse Hailemariam, CEO of Ethiopian Petroleum Supply Enterprise, said the East African country aims to transport petroleum from Djibouti port to central Ethiopia with the help of a recently launched Chinese-contracted railway project. Ethiopia, a landlocked country highly dependent on imported petroleum products, on Sunday laid the cornerstone of a railway project connecting the central Ethiopian market town of Awash and the maritime nation of Djibouti, which is contracted by two Chinese companies－China Railway Group and China Civil Engineering Construction Corp."Fuel plays a big role in our economy. "We had a very old railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa, which is now abandoned. The Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway, as the first electrified transnational railway in East Africa.

Source: Ethiopian News February 09, 2021 20:03 UTC