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DIRE DAWA, Ethiopia, Aug. 30-- Abdulkerim Yasin, a businessman based in Ethiopia's eastern Dire Dawa city, is hopeful that the imminent commissioning of the Chinese-built Dire Dawa Industrial Park would revive the business environment in Dire Dawa city and its surroundings. The Dire Dawa Industrial Park, which is under construction by the Chinese-construction giant China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), is now ready to host potential export-oriented investors as close to 97 percent of construction works finalized, the Chinese contractor revealed. Yasin, whose business largely focused on the import of goods via the Djibouti port, mainly expects the Dire Dawa industrial park to create new economic opportunities for his business. "Presently, I'm much focused on the import sector," Yasin told Xinhua recently, adding "once the industrial park starts operations, I am planning to commit both in the import and export sector by forging partnerships from some of the factories that are set to start their production inside the park." According to Yasin, the Dire Dawa industrial park, being the closest of all industrial parks to the Djibouti port, which presently handles about 90 percent of Ethiopia's overall export-import trade, would also benefit from the Ethiopia-Djibouti electrified railway that passed through the city. The industry park, located with some 262km proximity from the port of Djibouti, "is a timely investment as it enables easy access to the port, and the global market," the businessman asserted. | 
