The Ethiopian Shipping & Logistics Service Enterprise leases most of the containers, for which it has to pay in dollars. The draft directive will allows the Ethiopian Customs & Revenues Authority to transfer contents of containers within 30 days of arrival to warehouses, both within and outside the dry port. This move is intended to save both space at the dry port and the hard currency paid for the lease of containers.
The directive, titled ‘Placing & Keeping Goods at Dry Port Terminals’, outlines the rights and responsibilities each stakeholder has over goods placed at dry ports, in the multi-modal transport system. The draft directive also seeks to provide solutions over the fate of goods that have stayed for too long at the Modjo and other satellite dry ports. Such solutions include penalizing those that have not picked up their goods by repossessing their items.
Source: Fortune
