The railway between Addis Ababa and Djibouti.
Travel by train, or ship your cargo — goods and containers — on the same line. Both online.
- Addis Ababa
- Dire Dawa
- Djibouti Port
What we offer
One railway, two services: travel for passengers, and cargo — goods and containers, also called freight — for businesses.
Passengers
Travel by train
Train tickets
Seats and sleeper berths, from economy to VIP, on every scheduled train.
Travel packages
One-way and round-trip journeys at a set fare.
Pay from your phone
Mobile money or mobile banking. Your QR e-ticket arrives by SMS.
Passenger app
Search, buy and carry your ticket on iOS and Android.
Cargo (freight)
Ship goods by rail
For importers, exporters, freight forwarders and transit agents.
Rail transport
Import, export and intercity. 20 ft and 40 ft containers, bulk and break-bulk cargo.
Multimodal transport
Import containers booked through your shipping line: sea and rail as one journey.
Unimodal transport
The rail leg on its own, booked with us directly, without a shipping line.
First-mile pick-up
Our trucks collect your cargo at your door and bring it to the train.
Last-mile delivery
From the dry port to your door, or collect it with your own trucks.
Customs clearance
Our clearing desk handles the paperwork, or name your own agent or freight forwarder.
Storage at the dry port
Yard and warehouse space while your cargo waits for the train or for collection.
Special cargo
Refrigerated and hazardous goods, and empty containers.
Operators and manufacturers: maintenance, repair and overhaul for locomotives, wagons and coaches, and the design and construction of railways, ports and terminals. MROEngineering
How it works
Everything happens online. Choose what you came to do.
Buy your ticket online in four steps, from the search to the gate.
Search for a train
Pick your stations, the date, and how many adults and children are travelling.
Pick a seat or berth
Compare departures, then choose your class and the exact seat or sleeper berth.
Add travellers
Ethiopian travellers verify with FAYDA; visitors enter their passport details.
Pay and board
Pay from your phone. Your QR e-ticket arrives by SMS; show it at the gate.
From registering your company to delivery, in five steps on the cargo portal.
Register your company
Sign up with your company TIN and FAYDA. EDR checks the details and approves your account.
Place a shipment order
Import, export or intercity; your cargo and route; and any pick-up, customs or delivery you want from us. Pay online or on contract credit.
Get it to the train
Our truck collects it, you bring it to the yard, or — for imports — it comes straight off the ship in Djibouti.
Follow it on the line
Customs is handled on the way, by our clearing desk or your own agent. Every wagon shows live on the map.
Collect or receive it
Pick it up at the dry port with your own trucks, or we deliver it to your door. The final invoice is online.
Find your train
Live departures, fares and seats for every station on the line. Search here, then pick your seat on the passenger portal.
- Seats and sleeper berths, economy to VIP
- Pay from your phone
- QR e-ticket by SMS, shown at the gate
Cargo in numbers
Trains, tonnes and wagons on the line over the last 30 days, read straight from the cargo system.
Connecting
- Trains run
- Tonnes booked
- Cargo orders
- Wagons available
Every cargo train runs this line, Indode to Doraleh, under 25 kV.
- Addis Ababa
- Dire Dawa
- Djibouti Port
Pick-up, customs, storage and delivery are ordered on the same portal as the train.
Ship cargoMessage from the CEO
Every generation inherits a nation shaped by those who came before it. Each generation must then decide what it will preserve, what it will repair and what it will build for those who come after. For us at the Ethio-Djibouti Railway, that responsibility is especially profound.
We are the heirs of an ancient civilization and of one of the oldest railway traditions in Africa. That inheritance is both a gift and a duty.
Send a letter to EDR
Submit an official letter online and receive a reference number you can quote in follow-ups.
Opens the EDR correspondence portal.
Verify who you are
Sign in with your e-Trade business licence or your FAYDA national ID.
Upload the signed letter
Attach the PDF, its subject and your own letter number.
Keep the reference number
Quote it in any follow-up. The record office picks it up from there.
One line, two nations
756 km of electrified standard gauge from the Ethiopian highlands to the Red Sea, and the crews, yards and worksites that keep it running.
Track construction on the line. 
Crew inspecting the running gear of a coach. 
A station and its yard, seen from above.
Built by our own engineers
EDR designs and builds railways, ports and terminals with its own crews. This short film shows one of them, the Galan Multipurpose Port.
News and updates
Your ticket on your phone
Search trains, pick your seat, pay from your phone, and carry your QR e-ticket to the gate. The EDR Passenger app is on iOS and Android.