East African competition to provide port and logistics services for landlocked Ethiopia is heating up between Djibouti and Somaliland.
Djibouti’s port is the main transit point for imports to and exports from Ethiopia, but the government in Addis Ababa wants to diversify its options. Somaliland, an unrecognised breakaway region of Somalia, is home to the Berbera port, where a major expansion is expected to be inaugurated in March of 2021.
