Minister "Encourages" Private Importers to Go Multimodal

By Zekarias Haddush addisfortune.com

The Minister of Communications and Transportation (MoCT), Driba Kuma, has encouraged the private sector to use the multimodal transportation system, which is to be fully operational beginning July 7, 2010.

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Djibouti Backs off from Proposed Operation Monopoly at Doraleh

The government of Djibouti backed off, last week, from its plans to grant exclusive rights to a private consortium, which would have undertaken the operation of container stuffing and unstuffing inside its own premises, sources disclosed to Fortune.

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Gov't Contracts Dubai Co. to Import Vehicles, Quick

The government gave a 50 million Br vehicle supply contract to a Dubai company, dropping offers made by established local suppliers.

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Djibouti Grants Monopoly on Part of Port Operation

A crisis is looming between Ethiopian authorities and their counterparts in Djibouti, following a new directive that is deemed to have given a monopolistic position to an alliance of private companies on the operation of stripping, stuffing, and unstuffing of containers.

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Gov’t Begins Cargo Delivery at Modjo, Semera to Private Importers

Authorities at the Revenues and Customs Authority instructed on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, all agencies operating inside the newly built dry ports at Modjo and Semera to begin delivering containers imported by private companies, reliable sources disclosed.

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