Following its independence in 1977, Djibouti has opted for a service economy and put on rail projects to gradually develop its transport chain.
The choice of the Djibouti authorities to make the development of logistics as a national priority is that the country occupies a geostrategic incommensurable in the region of the Horn of Africa.
It gives it a role of advanced platform to serve as a transit center and redistribution at the regional and international levels.
Transportation is in Djibouti's main contribution to the formation of gross domestic product (GDP) with a rate of nearly 37% in 2007, according to a document recently released by the Ministry of Infrastructure and transport at interdepartmental meetings of COMESA.
The transportation sector is also an essential instrument of any strategy to reduce poverty in Djibouti since it is a source of jobs for about 10,000 people in a country where unemployment exceeds 60%.
The existence of ultra modern port facilities (port Doraleh), infrastructure Driving in very good condition and the geostrategic position of Djibouti, a crossroads of maritime routes, justify themselves, the fundamental role that keeps the logistics sector in the economy.
The ports are points focqaux animation activities including transportation Port Autonome International de Djibouti (PAID) and the port of Doraleh) and the Djibouti-Ethiopia corridor, itself closely linked to port activities.
In 2008, AID, managed since 2000 by DP World, has reached the highest performance in its history with more than 243,000 TEUs and nearly 9 million tons of goods handled.
As for road transport has increased significantly since the traffic from the Eritrean port of Assab, was diverted to Djibouti due to the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The number of trucks has risen from 89,000 in 2000 to over 171,445 in 2008, of which 98% belong to the Ethiopians against only 2% of freight Djibouti.
The choice of the Djibouti authorities to make the development of logistics as a national priority is that the country occupies a geostrategic incommensurable in the region of the Horn of Africa.
It gives it a role of advanced platform to serve as a transit center and redistribution at the regional and international levels.
Transportation is in Djibouti's main contribution to the formation of gross domestic product (GDP) with a rate of nearly 37% in 2007, according to a document recently released by the Ministry of Infrastructure and transport at interdepartmental meetings of COMESA.
The transportation sector is also an essential instrument of any strategy to reduce poverty in Djibouti since it is a source of jobs for about 10,000 people in a country where unemployment exceeds 60%.
The existence of ultra modern port facilities (port Doraleh), infrastructure Driving in very good condition and the geostrategic position of Djibouti, a crossroads of maritime routes, justify themselves, the fundamental role that keeps the logistics sector in the economy.
The ports are points focqaux animation activities including transportation Port Autonome International de Djibouti (PAID) and the port of Doraleh) and the Djibouti-Ethiopia corridor, itself closely linked to port activities.
In 2008, AID, managed since 2000 by DP World, has reached the highest performance in its history with more than 243,000 TEUs and nearly 9 million tons of goods handled.
As for road transport has increased significantly since the traffic from the Eritrean port of Assab, was diverted to Djibouti due to the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The number of trucks has risen from 89,000 in 2000 to over 171,445 in 2008, of which 98% belong to the Ethiopians against only 2% of freight Djibouti.
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