ADDIS ABABA (Semonegna) – China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) and Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority (AAWSA) signed the contract for the operation and maintenance of Kaliti Wastewater Treatment Plant in Addis Ababa, the Capital of Ethiopia. The Project was CGGC’s first single water operation project in the African market and represents another important achievement of CGGC in developing management consulting businesses and pushing forward its “1+4” strategy.
Located in southern part of Addis Ababa, the Project is currently the largest wastewater treatment project in Ethiopia with the design capacity of 100,000m3/day and adopts the combination of Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) Reaction and biotrickling filters. With investment from the World Bank, the Project involves the operation and maintenance, technical support, training of local operation teams, etc.
CGGC will take this opportunity to proactively promote China’s water management and operation standards backed by the status and influence of Ethiopia as the headquarters of the African Union, to offer Chinese technologies and solutions for construction projects in Africa.
In related news, CGGC has won a contract to construct a Chinese funded 270 million U.S. dollars water supply project in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray Regional State. The project is intended to meet the water needs of the estimated 400,000 residents of Mekelle city, the capital of Tigray Regional State.
The Chinese government has agreed to provide interest free loan of 80 million U.S. dollars and preferential loan of 150 million U.S. dollars for the project, accounting for 85 percent of the total financing required, according to Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia, Mr. Tan Jian.
China Gezhouba Group Corporation, part of state-owned conglomerate China Energy Engineering Group, has been designing, building, investing and operating a wide range of infrastructure projects since 1970. With offices in Beijing, the Corporation has expanded its business in more than 140 countries and regions, ranking among the foremost 100 enterprise in China and 50 in the Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 250 International Contractors.