Comment / T&L opportunities on the block at Ethiopia's new stock exchange

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Attempts to liberalise Ethiopia’s state-run economy raise the prospect of a logistics boom in Africa’s second-most populous country, as it prepares for the launch its stock exchange scheduled for tomorrow (10 January), raising the prospect of T&L players being listed and major shippers receiving significant capital injections leading to increased investment.

More accurately, it’s a relaunch – a stock exchange in Addis Ababa traded for 14 years until Ethiopia’s socialist revolution of 1974 led to the creation of a command economy, ...