Another important step towards boosting Ethiopian exports

As a landlocked country with no seaports, Ethiopia has set up DPSE (Dry Port Service Enterprise) to develop dry ports that will improve the country's logistics network. 

 

According to a LinkedIn post by an official of the Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporters Association (EHPEA), an agreement has just been signed in Addis Ababa between the Dutch Embassy and the Ministry of Finance to implement the Cool Port Addis project. 

 

Cool Port Addis will be based at Modjo Dry Port, near Addis Ababa, the country's capital. An efficient agri-logistics ecosystem, Cool Port Addis will offer additional cold storage, sorting, grading and packaging capacity. 

 

It is therefore a new step towards developing and strengthening Ethiopian exports. The project will also benefit from the advantages of the Ethiopia/Djibouti logistics corridor, which enables Ethiopian products to reach the port of Djibouti by train before being exported by sea.