Through Djibouti and up the corridor, which is the route almost everything takes.
Ethiopia is landlocked and the overwhelming majority of its imports come through Djibouti and up the corridor to Addis Ababa. That is the route to plan around, and the corridor is busy enough that the haulage side needs booking rather than assuming.
Road and dam work takes large excavators, loaders, graders, rollers and heavy tippers. The industrial parks and city building take twenty tonne excavators, backhoes and mixers. Agriculture takes backhoe loaders and small wheel loaders.
This is the part that catches buyers out, and we would rather say it plainly. Our machines are paid for by bank transfer in United States dollars to our parent company in America. Talk to your bank about the transfer before you confirm an order, not after, so there are no surprises in the middle of a shipment.
Use an agent who moves plant through Djibouti regularly. The machine is in transit through Djibouti and clears in Ethiopia, and the documents need to say that from the beginning.
On a long corridor the machine that redeems itself is the common one. A widely used model whose parts move easily beats a rarer machine with a better specification that waits weeks for a component.
Photographs, video of the machine running with the hour meter in frame, and an open yard for your own inspector. Every machine also carries its price on its page.
What contractors in Ethiopia ask us.
Send us the machine you want. Settle the transfer side with your bank at the same time and the rest is straightforward.
