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Ethiopian Airlines announced that the Bole Airport new passenger terminal, which is being constructed at a cost of USD 345 million in the east and west directions of the airport’s existing terminal, had started a partial service provision. The airline is constructing the new terminal as part of an expansion project which is being undertaken to ease congestion at the existing terminal and properly serve the ever increasing passengers. Upon completion, the terminal will have the capacity to accommodate 20 million passengers per year while the existing terminal’s capacity is only 11 million.

Terminal I of Bole International Airport, which was built by China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), has become operational. The terminal is situated on 16,689 square meters of land and is part of Ethiopian Airlines’ expansion project.

The Ethiopian Airports Enterprise (EAE) announced it is going to install a new baggage handling system (BHS) at the Bole International Airport. EAE said the new BHS is to be built at the cost of 92 Million Birr and the construction will commence on September 2014.

The Ethiopian Airports Enterprise is planning an expansion project of the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport passengers’ terminal at a cost of US$250 million, according to The Reporter.

Tewodros Dawit, CEO of the Ethiopian Airports Enterprise, told The Reporter that the expansion project is part of the Airlines' Vision 2025 development strategy.

Bole Lemi Industrial Park saved Birr 2 billion by producing goods which substituted import products. Among the park’s manufacturing companies, Soufflet Malt and BGI, a Chinese company, take the lion’s share in the production of import substituting products. Soufflet’s malt production has fully substituted import malt while BGI’s Covid-19 testing kits have saved the country from spending foreign currency on foreign made testing products.