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Belgio
Un train Desiro sans conducteur ni voyageur déraille à Forest
Un train à vide, sans conducteur, a déraillé lundi aux alentours de 5h00 du matin en gare de Forest-formation (Bruxelles), indique la CGSP Cheminots. L'information a été confirmée par la SNCB, qui précise que l'enquête devra déterminer les circonstances de l'accident.
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Etiopia
Cargo transporters union ask gov’t for approval
The National Dry Cargo Transporter Association has formed a union to try to ease the flow of cross-country transportation. Forty six associations working in the nation’s import/export sector officially formed the union during their first general assembly at Ras Hotel on December 24. Mesele Hagos, head of the new ...
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Etiopia
Market needs
While we are busy running our business, which is now beginning to return some of our investments, we in fact need to begin working on renewal of our company before performance of our present operations begins to drop off. In doing so we often find solutions in working harder but ...
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Thailandia Etiopia
Ethiopian investor contracts with Thai company to manage huge Ethiopian resort
A local real estate developer is putting in USD 150 million to partner with Thailand’s Dusit Thani to build Ethiopia’s biggest resort. Located in Legadadi, Oromia region, 23km from Addis Ababa, the resort will take up 400,000sqm and take four years to complete. Construction will begin in October of 2017. ...
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Turchia Etiopia
Turkey requests free trade, Ethiopia asks for time
Turkey’s Economic Minister Nihat Zeybekci asked the Ethiopian government to ease the process of visas and customs and to allow Turkish Airways to use large aircraft when transporting passengers via Addis Ababa to Istanbul. He also asked for both countries to ease trade restrictions so that import and export can ...
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Etiopia
Private transporters vies to take part in multimodal transportation
Private freight forwarders will soon be able to take part in the multimodal transportation scheme once a new draft directive is issued in a few weeks. Previously they were only allowed to engage in uni-modal operations. The Ethiopian Maritime Affairs Authority (EMAA), the regularity body under the Ministry of Trade, ...
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Etiopia
Lion Insurance premium grows but pays out more claims
Lion Insurance Company earned 17 million birr in gross profits and 15 million birr in net profits largely from bringing in a significant amount of income from premiums. The company’s gross written premiums grew 25 percent last fiscal year, standing at 282.1 million birr, up from 225.4 million birr a ...
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Russia Turchia Iran
Turkey’s energy sector still appealing despite setbacks: Energy Council head
Foreign investment in Turkey remains strong in spite of many challenges including terrorist attacks, thanks to the normalization of bilateral relations with Russia and Israel and the lifting of sanctions on Iran, the president of the Energy Council of Foreign Investors said on Jan. 2
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Turchia
Mostly Middle Eastern tourists killed in ISIL’s attack on Reina nightclub
Most of the foreign victims in the Reina terror attack on Jan. 1 in Istanbul have been identified as citizens of Middle Eastern countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iraq
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Turchia
Turkish manufacturing contracts further in December: Index
Turkey’s manufacturing, which represents around a third of the country’s economy, slipped further into contraction in December, falling to its lowest level in four months, a survey showed on Jan. 2