Mr Desalegn reiterated his commitment to use the Dar es Salaam Port in transporting cargo as well as extending cooperation with Tanzania on Air Freight Forwarding Services.

The Ethiopian leader commended the Port of Dar es Salaam for higher efficiency and said that the Ethiopian Shipping Line will start to call at the Port of Dar es Salaam in the near future.

Speaking few minutes after visiting Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) yesterday, Mr Desalegn said: “I am glad to learn that TPA is working very hard to make the service competitive for the benefit of our people.

” “Ethiopia is keen to learn from Tanzania because our country has a comparative advantage in the transport sector whereby we have Ethiopian shipping line, one of the few remaining on the African continent,” said Mr Desalegn.

In his remarks, Tanzanian Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa expressed Tanzania’s commitment to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.

TPA Director General (DG), Engineer Deusdedit Kakoko, said with the number of measures taken such as automation of services, installation of Integrated Security System (ISS) and improved spatial and infrastructure capacity to increase the efficiency at the Port, “We are actually looking forward for a much more volume in future as envisaged in our Port Master Plan,” he said, adding:

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