{"id":188611,"date":"2025-01-14T16:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-ethiopia-djibouti-railway-achieves-first-profit-milestone-since-launch-says-ceo\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T16:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T14:03:45","slug":"djibouti-ethiopia-djibouti-railway-achieves-first-profit-milestone-since-launch-says-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-ethiopia-djibouti-railway-achieves-first-profit-milestone-since-launch-says-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti: Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway Achieves First Profit Milestone Since Launch, Says CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Takele Uma, CEO of Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway S.C., announced that for the first time since the company&#8217;s operational launch, it achieved profitability in the last quarter of 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/takele.uma.01\/posts\/pfbid02qguJ9voYuGw8wpAQcXocbrSYyqXLRYN8aJrnFfYCCzWvxDQwYPCrZ3hn2nvncEShl\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> followed a comprehensive evaluation of the 2024 performance of the Ethio-Djibouti railway, conducted on 14 January, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">&#8220;This achievement sets the stage for our upcoming three-year strategic plan aimed at transforming the company into a profitable venture,&#8221; Takele stated on social media. &#8220;With a solid&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501140202.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Djibouti\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/djibouti\/\">Djibouti<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takele Uma, CEO of Ethiopia-Djibouti Railway S.C., announced that for the first time since the company&#8217;s operational launch, it achieved profitability in the last quarter of 2024. The announcement followed a comprehensive evaluation of the 2024 performance of the Ethio-Djibouti railway, conducted on 14 January, 2025. &#8220;This achievement sets the stage for our upcoming three-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651502:8d1df32fc76493ee8aab9aacd0a4e78c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[18757,258,256,7213,4701,568,19699,5741,12070,257,15693,2918,254],"class_list":["post-188611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-achieves","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ceo","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-ethiopiadjibouti","tag-launch","tag-milestone","tag-news","tag-profit","tag-railway","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651502:8d1df32fc76493ee8aab9aacd0a4e78c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}