Mojo, Ethiopia News

The Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority says that it has been unable to collect more than two billion birr from customs duty due to the congestion in the dry ports around the country.

Addis Ababa December 24/2012 Mojo Dry Port Service under the auspice of the Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Enterprise , facilitated 70 percent of nation's imported items since 2001 EC, is undertaking expansion projects at a cost of 718 million Birr.

The 115 years old Ethio-Djibouti Railway is going to sue China Railway Group Limited, a Chinese company contracted to build the Mojo- Me'eso new railway project, for allegedly dismantling a metal bridge the former built over Mermersa River, an area located between Me'eso and Metehara, and Feto Gabriel, an area between Wolenchiti and Metehara, ... (more)

A week after the business community held a meeting with the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, and complained about the slow pace of goods delivery by the Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise , the enterprise published a list of 355 companies whose containers lie at the Mojo Dry Port.

While much of our trip was spent in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital of about 4 million people, we also spent a lot of our time in rural areas, visiting farms and other aspects of the countryside.