Ethiopian Airlines Group and the Boeing Company have signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on positioning Ethiopia as an aviation hub for Africa, Ethiopian Airlines said in a statement sent to 2merkato.com. Building on the two parties’ seventy years of shared history in aviation, the MoU aims at positioning Ethiopia as Africa’s aviation hub - “Ethiopia for Africa”, the statement read.
Ethiopian Airlines and Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced an agreement to double wire harness production at Ethiopian Airlines’ Wire Harness Facility.
The Wire Harness Facility, based in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, opened in 2009 and currently supplies seat-to-seat wire harnesses for all Boeing commercial airplane programs. Following today’s announcement Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines will place additional work at the facility, which will double its output by the end of 2014. With support from Boeing, Ethiopian will manufacture more varied and complex wire harnesses, expanding its value as an aerospace supplier.
Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and the most profitable African airline, won the 2013 "African Airline of the Year Award" from the African Airlines Association at its 45th Annual General Assembly meeting held between 25 and 26 November 2013, in Mombasa, Kenya.
Ethiopian Airlines announced that it would launch the modern e-commerce cargo service center which is being constructed at a cost of USD 50 million in mid-2023. The airline held discussions with stakeholders following the expansion of e-commerce around the globe with a view to maintaining its competitiveness and upgrading its services.
Ethiopian Airlines has taken a major leap forward in international logistics and e-commerce with the launch of a state-of-the-art center at Bole International Airport.
