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Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia’s flag carrier, has awarded a seven year contract for Integrated Component Solutions services to the Boeing 737NG fleet to Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies, the largest independent maintenance, repair and overhaul service provider in the Middle East and a part of the Mubadala Aerospace MRO network.

The contract covers a total of 19 aircraft, eleven of which are the fleet of B737NG aircraft and eight new aircraft on order.

ADAT will provide repair cycle management and pool access coverage supported by the combined Integrated Component Solutions experience and capabilities of ADAT and SR Technics.

Ethiopian Entrepreneur Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu is to be featured by Sony Pictures Entertainment in its upcoming series ‘Trading Secrets: Inside the Minds Shaping Global Business’.

The participants selected to be part of the series represent the most inspirational business leaders from around the world and Bethlehem was selected for her business acumen, ingenuity, innovation and commitment to establishing an international brand that aims to benefit both consumers and workers equally said Mat Steiner, Managing Director for the GOGGLE box division of Sony producing the series. 

Ethiopia is to privatize two more enterprises with the board of the Privatization and Public Enterprises Agency approving the offers made for Caustic Soda SC and the warehouses of Faffa foods.

Caustic Soda will be purchased by MCC Imports for 14.8 million birr and the warehouses of Faffa foods will be sold to a Nejib Abba Biya, Ethiopia Canadian Businessperson, for 414,100 US dollars.

It is to be remembered that the PPESA is seeking interested bidders for two of the five enterprises it had offered for privatization in the same lot as Caustic Soda and the Faffa foods.

Ethiopia is looking to partner with Swiss company Social General Service to certify the quality of goods. The Ethiopian Conformity Assessment Enterprise is negotiating the deal to earn international recognition as an SGS agent to attract more business according to sources.

If the deal goes through the SGS and ECAE will each be able to evaluate the quality, safety and security of products as per national and international standards, for customers of either organization.

Accordingly imports to Ethiopia can be checked for conformity to standards at the country of origin by SGS on behalf of the ECAE while the ECAE can in turn evaluate exports from Ethiopia and the region for SGS.