200,000 metric tons of food come through Berbera

[yawle]

Ethiopian Aid Arrives In Somaliland

Berbera, 17 May 2009 (Somalilandpress) — A freighter carrying humanitarian relief supplies of food provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) bound for Ethiopia has docked in the Somaliland port of Berbera on Friday.

The vessel was escorted by NATO ships to the port even though Somaliland has so far managed to keep it’s waters free of Somali pirates from Somalia.

MV-Fidel was carrying 23, 900 metric tons of wheat and will be loaded to convoy of trucks and lorries that will carry it across the border into Ethiopia. The food aid is destined for the needy Ethiopians in the Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Somali, SNNP and Tigray regions and Dire Dawa Administrative Council. Ali Omar, the manager of Berbera port told local reporters that it will take them two weeks to deliver the food to Ethiopia and it will be managed by four Somaliland companies.

The shipment is the first installment of 200,000 metric tons in promised aid that will be distributed by the WFP and all of which will be delivered through the port of Berbera.

In recent months, landlocked Ethiopia has been using Somaliland port of Berbera due to heavy congestion at Djibouti Port and due to piracy threatening shipping route through Kenya and Somalia’s coast.

The aid is response to recent plea by the United Nation to donors to boost aid for the Horn of Africa and Ethiopian government’s January appeal.

Source: Somalilandpress

[yawle]

200,000 tons means around 10 ships docking at Berbera and about 8000 truck loads delivering the food. That should earn good money to our truckies and improve our government's coffers.

[LiQaaye_TDH]

Ninyow miyaanad wadanki Horta tegin? do you just fallow everything on the Net? The somalis dont hardly benefit anything from Them ships, Ethiopia has there own truckers in Berbera driving all the way from Ethiopia to Berbera, 95% OF the Truck drivers are ethiopian, The only somali workers the ehtiopians have is Xamaalinta are somalis..... This ethiopians have their own Parking space for their TRucks in Berbera, and they also have their Warehouses ka waran!!!!

[FAH1223]

Ninyow miyaanad wadanki Horta tegin? do you just fallow everything on the Net? The somalis dont hardly benefit anything from Them ships, Ethiopia has there own truckers in Berbera driving all the way from Ethiopia to Berbera, 95% OF the Truck drivers are ethiopian, The only somali workers the ehtiopians have is Xamaalinta are somalis..... This ethiopians have their own Parking space for their TRucks in Berbera, and they also have their Warehouses ka waran!!!!

that aid is destined to Ethiopia cause Ethiopia doesn't have a port, right?

does the somaliland government get taxes from them

[LiQaaye_TDH]

Fah.. No its called something Freetransit, basically we dont benefit fock all from them using our port!!!!

[FAH1223]

Fah.. No its called something Freetransit, basically we dont benefit fock all from them using our port!!!!

emperior is a beenlow then

telling me ethiopia gives good money for the port

[The_Emperior5]

war Ethiopia waba ta somaliland biilaysa wabay halkay lacagtu ka soo gasho dawlada.laakin lacagtu isma badasho marketka lama socotto like when they where using berbera laakin riyaale administration lacag bay ka qaatta farra badan dawlada Ethiopia. ila 55 milion ba sanadki soo galla somaliland halkay ka keenan

[LiQaaye_TDH]

55 million is from the poor people of somaliland, every somalilanders who owns a house in somaliland pays 100$ every year called Cashuur, every singel car in somaliland has to pay tax of 70$ every year in somaliland, The berbera port every car that comes true gets taxed 750$ just add all of that, and somaliland would have atleast 500 million a year, if there was no focking corruption!!!

[yawle]

Ninyow miyaanad wadanki Horta tegin? do you just fallow everything on the Net? The somalis dont hardly benefit anything from Them ships, Ethiopia has there own truckers in Berbera driving all the way from Ethiopia to Berbera, 95% OF the Truck drivers are ethiopian, The only somali workers the ehtiopians have is Xamaalinta are somalis..... This ethiopians have their own Parking space for their TRucks in Berbera, and they also have their Warehouses ka waran!!!!

This is different. When Ethiopia brings her own goods through the port, they have the right to choose who will bring those goods to their country. In the past, it was a 50:50 ratio. And who told you that they don't pay tax?

But this is different, the UN WFP is the one that is bringing the food and they had chosen a local truck corporate (Shuraako) to transport the food to ethiopia.