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Ethiopian Airlines has entered in an agreement with Lufthansa Technik for technical support for the airline’s Boeing 787 fleet.
The Total Component Support agreement for the latest aircraft in the Ethiopia long haul fleet will be effective for the coming ten years.

Lufthansa has taken on the role of supporting the airline using its pool of material in Germany starting from when Ethiopian took charge of the plane in August. The contractual agreement includes repair and logistics for the Dreamliner fleet comprising the three that airline is already operating and the seven on order.

Lufthansa Technik is already engaged in helping Ethiopian Airlines with optimizing the support it gets from the Maintenance Repair and Overhaul sector as well as providing component support for the Bombardier Q 400 aircraft and the MD 11.

Kaizen Ethiopia awarded the ‘Kaizen Award’ to three Ethiopian companies for the first time. The three companies which received the award are Kadisco Chemical Industry, Zenith Gebse-Eshet Ethiopia Ltd and Maru Metal Industry.

The companies were awarded for showing the most significant improvement in productivity through utilizing the Kaizen Philosophy.

The three companies were selected from a highly competitive pool because of the notable improvement seen in the quality of their products, increased productivity, improved safety conditions and the enhanced relationship between management and employees said Gethaun Tadesse, Director General of Kaizen Ethiopia, speaking at the awards ceremony held at the Ethiopia Hotel earlier this week.

Ethiopia and Zambia are working on developing bilateral relations said Francis Simenda Zambian Ambassador to Ethiopia.

The two nations are taking measures to enhance existing relations he explained speaking at an event organized in Addis Ababa to commemorate the 48th Anniversary of Zambian Independence.

Ethiopia and Zambia have agreement on diplomatic, economic and technical cooperation which were recently signed into effect said Simenda.

The Municipality of Addis Ababa revised the tariffs it had established for sewage disposal. The Addis Ababa City Water and Sewerage Authority has been offering this service for 69 birr levied on households for the past 15 years but has now increased the charge to 176 birr.

The increase in the tariff due to the current revision is an estimated 155% making the revision a considerable one according to sources.

The rate charged by private operators for the same service has gone up from 196 birr to 500 birr it was learned.