The Ethio-Railway Enterprise has resumed operations after a week of being halted due to the controversy that erupted among the enterprises and Metals and Engineering Corporation (MetEC).
According to sources approached by The Reporter, Ethiopian and Djibouti Transport Ministers discussed the issue on which the latter prompted the resumption of the transport services.
Citing sources, The Reporter read last week that MetEC demanded 2.5 million birr from the enterprise to use for employee wages.
However, the details were not clear as to how they solved the employees wage payments that MetEC claimed the enterprises owed the above-mentioned amount of money.
The Ethio-Djibouti Railway Enterprise manages the service but is struggling to maintain full operations; hence workers were handed over to MetEC, which was tasked with wage payments.
The increasingly fragile Ethio-Djibouti railway has been transporting people to and from Dire Dawa to Djibouti, with the capacity to transport around 1,000 people per trip.
The railway has recently signed a new agreement with National Cement to transport cement to the Djibouti port and carry red ash from Metahara.
The country’s oldest railway line, built during the time of Emperor Menelik II, has encountered various problems on the Addis Ababa – Djibouti route but it has been more than a decade since the Addis Ababa-Dire Dawa railway line was damaged.
Source: The Reporter
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