Ethiopia signed an agreement for the construction of the 268.2 kilometer Mekelle-Woldiya/Hara Gebeya Railway Project with the China Communications Construction Company. The project is expected to cost an estimated 1.6 billion US dollars and is to be completed in three and a half years.
The agreement between the Ethiopian Railways Corporation and the CCCC includes an Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract.
The railway will link with the Mekele-Woldiya/Hara Gebeya- Semera-Dicheto-Elidar project ultimately connecting Northern Ethiopia with Port Tadjourah, Djibouti. The project is the beginning of three phases of links between Mekelle and Djibouti along the current railroad.
The project will include 29 large bridges and 19 kilometers of tunneling work and is expected to be the toughest railway project to date according to the ERC.
CCCC is expected to commence mobilizing resources and to launch constructions in the next six weeks. It is anticipated that civil work on the railway will be subcontracted to local contractors in an effort to build up the capacity of domestic companies said Getachew Betru (Dr.) General Manager of the ERC.
The network will allow another access to the port and contribute to the development of the Northern parts of the country.
The terrain proposed for the project is challenging but the network open a means of transporting potash and metals from Northern mines to Port Tadjourah said Getachew The railway corporation also expects freight and passenger transport to and from each point along the network he noted.
There will be an extension to the project which will stretch from Woldiya-Awash linking to the Addis Ababa-Djibouti line around Dire Dawa City according to Dr. Getachew.
CCCC was selected as the contractor for the project after 15 international companies from several countries including Brazil, China, India and Russia were shortlisted said the General Manager.
(Reuters) - Ethiopia has signed two deals worth $3.2 billion with Chinese and Turkish companies to construct a railway to link the land-locked Horn of Africa nation to Djibouti's Tadjourah port to export potash, officials said.
Ethiopia, which has seen high economic growth over the past five years, hopes to exploit growing business ties with China, India and Turkey to boost its expanding economy.
Under a five-year development plan launched in 2010, the government aims to pursue power projects and boost infrastructure, including building several new railways.
Getachew Betru, head of the Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC), said Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi will build a $1.7 billion railway line in the northeast, part of a project that stretches to Djibouti's third port of Tadjourah, which is under construction.
Tadjourah, on the Red Sea, is the closest outlet for Ethiopia's Afar region, where a number of foreign firms, including Canada's Allana Potash Corp, a re developing potash mines.
Allana said in February it would work with Djibouti authorities to integrate required potash storage and handling facilities into the new port plans.
Wednesday's deal followed a $1.5 billion agreement signed over the weekend between ERC and China Communications Construction Company to build a different section of the railway line to Tadjourah port.
Yapi Merkazi is expected to complete its portion of the line in 42 months, the foreign ministry said on its website.
This will link up with the section being built by the Chinese firm, as well as other portions, to give Ethiopia an alternative port access from the current route to Djibouti's mai n outlet, and providing an outlet for potash development,
Ethiopia aims to construct 5,000 km of railway lines by 2020 and says companies from BRIC nations have shown an interest in several projects.
The neighbouring economies are reliant on each other with about 70 percent of all trade through the tiny Red Sea state.
Agreement signed for construction of 'Awash-Woldiya' railway line
เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2012 โดย newsdire
The Government of Ethiopia signed the 'Awash-Woldiya' 447 kilometer railway line construction deal with a Turkish Company, 'Yapi Merkezi'.
Director General of Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC), Engineer Getachew Betru and Board Member of Yapi Merkezi, Erider Arigoru signed the agreement.
The railway line which would get through a tunnel would be constructed with a state of the art technology.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister, Hailemariam Dessalegn, who is also board chairman of ERC, expressed optimism that 'Yapi Merkezi' would accomplish the construction work successfully realizing the topography of the area.
The project would cost 1.7 billion US Dollars and is expected to be completed in 42 months.
The first phase of the National Railway Project would concentrate on five designated routes to be completed by 2014-15.
Stations of West-East Route of the Addis Ababa Urban Rail System: Torhai Loch Coca-Cola Lideta
Mexico Square
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Stadium/Meskal Square
Estifanos/Meskal Square
Urael
Mazoria/Traffic Police HQ
Lem Hotel
Megenanga/Adwa Square
Gurd Sholla
Saute Mihrete Church
Civil Service College
St. Michael Church
C.M.C. 1
Meri/C.M.C. 2
Ayat 1
Ayat 2
Stations of North-South Route of the Addis Ababa Urban Rail System:
Menelik II Square
Atkilt Tera
Merkata
Sebategna
Abnet
Meshualekia
Lanoa
Goitera 1
Goitera 2
Nfassilk
Saris Gebeya
Dama Hotel
Aba Church
Kaliti
Station info according to map on first page of this thread.
"Main Stations" are in bold; "Mini Stations" are italicised; the remainder are "Intermediate Stations". Only Phase 1 stations are in this list. The East-West Route has 19 stations; the North-South Route has 14 stations (5 in north portion, 9 in south portion).
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