EDR is a licensed Grade 1 Contractor with proven expertise in railways, highways, and port and terminal infrastructure. Our engineers design, build and supervise the work with our own crews.
What our engineers are building now.
EDR is building a 128 km railway line to strengthen Ethiopia’s northern corridor connectivity. Work is under way on the first 40 km segment, which has reached 21% completion.
It is the work the chief executive describes when he writes that “we are boring tunnels and raising heavy bridges for the railway in the north of Ethiopia.”
EDR has signed a landmark agreement with the Geda Special Economic Zone Development Corporation (GSEZDC) to develop the GEDA Railway Access: the railway yard, the siding, a container and freight terminal, and the railway infrastructure around them.
Modern rail access and freight handling inside the zone will strengthen Ethiopia’s multimodal transport system and support regional trade competitiveness. Construction will begin soon.
What they have already delivered, for EDR and for others.
Developed with bulk warehouses, container yard pavement and 10.7 km of railway access, across 40 hectares.
“We built our own dry port at Galan,” the chief executive writes, of the year Ethiopians began designing, building and operating railway infrastructure with their own hands.
A dedicated 3 km railway serving AMG Industrial Company — one of the rail spurs that, in the chief executive’s words, carry cargo “to the doors of the places where it is made and stored.”
Modern storage facilities supporting multimodal operations.
Strengthening the energy supply for railway and port operations.
Constructed under World Bank funding and handed over to the Ministry of Transport and Logistics.
EDR’s engineering capability did not stop at restoring what we already owned. The same teams who brought locomotives and wagons back into service are now laying new track — extending the network’s capacity with our own crews, our own methods, and our own timeline.
Rail-anchored sleeper laying has become a central technique in our infrastructure programme. Rather than positioning sleepers independently and then threading rail onto them, the rail itself is used to carry, align and set each sleeper in sequence. The method reduces handling, holds gauge and spacing more consistently as work advances, and lets a crew progress further in a working shift than conventional placement allows.
We have applied it on the Galan Multipurpose Port and Sabata Container Yard works, where it compressed the construction timeline on a project that directly increases the corridor’s freight handling capacity. What matters here is not only the speed. It is that the technique is being planned, supervised and executed in-house, on a live commercial project, by EDR engineers.
Maintenance and construction draw on the same people, the same standards and the same discipline. An engineer who has stripped and rebuilt a bogie understands what track geometry does to running gear. A crew that lays sleepers to a controlled tolerance is building the conditions that keep wheelsets and rail wearing evenly for years afterwards.
Holding both capabilities inside EDR means the corridor is maintained and extended by an organization that answers the whole asset — not by contractors handing work between them.
A full range of services, for our own corridor and for external clients.
The Infrastructure Development Unit has significantly strengthened its construction capacity and successfully executed both internal and external projects.
The unit has demonstrated outstanding performance in the design, construction and supervision of railway, port and other major infrastructure works, contributing to the company’s growth, operational excellence and industry leadership.
The ETS unit is the backbone of EDR’s electrified operations, ensuring reliable power supply and smooth train movement across the 756 km standard-gauge corridor.
