{"id":229999,"date":"2026-04-10T02:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-prioritizes-ethiopian-cargo-at-ports-says-ports-authority-chairman\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:25:36","slug":"djibouti-prioritizes-ethiopian-cargo-at-ports-says-ports-authority-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/djibouti\/djibouti-prioritizes-ethiopian-cargo-at-ports-says-ports-authority-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Djibouti Prioritizes Ethiopian Cargo At Ports, Says Ports Authority Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Addis Ababa \u2014 Djibouti will continue to give priority handling to cargo destined for Ethiopia, according to Aboubaker Omar Hadi, Chairman of the Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority (DPFZA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Speaking to the Ethiopian News Agency, Hadi emphasized that Djibouti&#8217;s deep-sea ports have sufficient capacity to manage rising cargo volumes without experiencing congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;For Ethiopia, we are going to give priority to all Ethiopian cargo destined to Ethiopia, especially fertilizer,&#8221; Hadi said,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604090071.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>Addis Ababa \u2014 Djibouti will continue to give priority handling to cargo destined for Ethiopia, according to Aboubaker Omar Hadi, Chairman of the Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority (DPFZA). Speaking to the Ethiopian News Agency, Hadi emphasized that Djibouti&#8217;s deep-sea ports have sufficient capacity to manage rising cargo volumes without experiencing congestion. &#8220;For Ethiopia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[258,256,9367,15349,6888,4701,568,5939,257,11710,9903,254],"class_list":["post-229999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djibouti","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-cargo","tag-chairman","tag-djibouti","tag-djibouti-news","tag-ethiopian","tag-news","tag-ports","tag-prioritizes","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229999","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=229999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}