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Electric railway to end Djibouti port congestion

Djibouti's Société de Gestion du Terminal a conteneur de Doraleh (SGTD) chief executive Abdillahi Adaweh Sigad on December 6, 2018. ANDUALEM SISAY | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  ANDUALEM SISAY

The Ethiopia-Djibouti electric railway will start transporting containerised goods from next January, official said.

Mr Abdillahi Adaweh Sigad, the CEO of Société de Gestion du Terminal a conteneur de Doraleh (SGTD), said the line will, in three weeks, start transporting 200 containers daily.

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