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Overview

CCEC and CREC sponsor training program for 50 Ethiopian and Djiboutian train drivers

Commitment Year•2018Country of Activity•Multi-RegionDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•Multiple JurisdictionsSector•Transport And StorageFlow Type•Scholarships/training in the donor country

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2018
Start (actual)
Jul 10, 2018
End (actual)
May 4, 2021

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

State-owned companies

  • China National Complete Engineering Corporation of China (CCEC)
  • China Railway Group Limited (CREC)

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Djibouti
  • Government of Ethiopia

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Zhengzhou Railway Vocational & Technical College

Loan desecription

CCEC and CREC sponsor training program for 50 Ethiopian and Djiboutian train drivers

Narrative

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Project narrative

On July 10, 2018, 50 prospective train drivers from Ethiopia and Djibouti began a Chinese-state owned railway company-sponsored training program. The training will be focused on how to manage rail operations, and was conducted to create a skilled force of local workers to operate the Ethiopia-Djibouti electrified rail line. The sponsors are CCEC and CREC. This training is a part of a larger air framework that has already sent over 5500 Ethiopians to different training programs. More training programs for railway drivers are to be conducted through a planned railway academy. The training was offered jointly by Chinese Companies named CCEC and CREC as per agreements they signed with the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Company. It is reported that 34 Ethiopian train drivers and an unspecified number of Djiboutian drivers came to Zhengzhou Railway Vocational & Technical College in October of 2019. These staff members were trained as professional train drivers of Ethiopia-Djibouti rail line. On June 1, members began on-site internship and practicing after 7 months' theoretical stud. On May 4, 2021, 34 Ethiopian drivers graduated and were inaugurated to become train drivers in Addis Abba. However, it is not clear how many or whether any Djiboutian drivers had graduated.

Staff comments

Ethiolive report states that "the training was offered jointly by Chinese Companies named CCEC and CERC as per agreements they signed with the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Company." However, CERC was not found (it is likely a mistranslation for CREC).