Draft law which aims at allowing private investors to engage in railway transportation service has been prepared. If passed by the law maker, the draft bill, dubbed Railway Transportation Administration, allows investors to use the national railway infrastructure. In other words, private companies are now allowed to give services on the already built railway infrastructures. This is in the midst of Ethiopia Railway Corporation’s (ERC) debt mounting at a staggering level, which reached 120 billion Birr.
Source:: http://www.2merkato.com/news/alerts/5149-ethiopia-to-allow-private-railway-transporters