Objective

As set out in the regulation issued by the federal government of Ethiopia in 2011 (Regulation No. 255/2011), the objectives for which the ESL is established are:

To render coastal and international marine and inland water transport services.

To render freight forwarding agency, multimodal transport, shipping agency and air agency services.

To provide the services of stevedore, shore-handling, dry-port, warehousing and other logistics services;

To provide container terminal services.

To engage in the development, management and operation of ports.

To establish and run human resources development and training center in the fields of maritime profession.

To study the country’s import and export trade demand and thereby develop technological capacity in order to render maritime and transit transport services.