{"id":283567,"date":"2019-08-08T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T13:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiWWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmpvdXJuYWxkdWNhbWVyb3VuLmNvbS9lbi9ldGhpb3BpYS1zZWN1cmVzLTIwbS1pbi1yZXZlbnVlLWZyb20tdHJhaW4tc2VydmljZXMv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-17T11:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T15:36:41","slug":"ethio-djibouti-railway-revenue-january-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/283567","title":{"rendered":"Ethio-Djibouti Railway earned more than $20 million from freight and passengers in the first seven months of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ethio-Djibouti Railway earned more than $20 million from freight and passenger services between January and July 2019, the Ethiopian News Agency and APA News reported in August 2019.<\/p>\n

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A train at Mojo station on Ethiopia's standard gauge railway, photographed on February 1, 2023. (Nahom366 \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) [file photo]<\/em><\/p>\n

Freight trains brought in $19.9 million and passenger trains $537,400 over the period, and the passenger service carried 39,000 people, according to a report presented during a media tour of the railway and the Adama Industrial Park organized by the Chinese embassy in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian News Agency said.<\/p>\n

Director-General Tilahun Sarka said the line moved about 800 trains and earned around $35 million in 2018, its first year of operation. In a July 2019 interview with the agency, he said the railway planned to double freight trips to four a day between Addis Ababa and Djibouti and aimed to carry 40 to 50 percent of the cargo then moved by truck.<\/p>\n

Two freight trains carried 212 containers in a single trip of about 11 hours, a load that took about 100 trucks three days, Tilahun said. The 750-kilometer standard gauge line, built jointly by Ethiopia and Djibouti at a cost of about $4.2 billion, began operating on Jan. 1, 2018, and cut travel between the two capitals from three days to about 12 hours.<\/p>\n

Addis Fortune later reported that the railway was running at a loss, with operating costs of about $70 million a year. It earned $40 million from passengers and cargo in 2019, while passenger numbers fell from 128,722 in 2018 to 84,073 in 2019, the paper said.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> Ethiopian News Agency: EDR Secures Over 20m USD in Revenue<\/a>, Ethiopian News Agency: Ethio-Djibouti Railway to Double Freight, Passenger Train Services<\/a>, Addis Fortune<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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