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Inauguration ceremony of DOCC, the first personal car assembled in Ethiopia. Wednesday October 18, 2006
Hilton - Addis Ababa.The car was assembled by Holland Car PLc, a joint venture partnership between Trento, a car assembling tools manufacturer in the Netherlands and Ethio-Holland Transport, a company engaged in the importation of second-hand cars and rental of construction equipment in Ethiopia.
Shareholders of the Holland Car PLc Taddesse Tessema and Wim Guns launched the project in July 2005 at Mojjo, 70-kms South East of Addis Ababa, at a cost of 20 million birr.
At the inauguration ceremony at the Addis Ababa Hilton, the Netherlands Ambassador Alphons Hennekens disclosed a 510,000 euro grant to the company by his government.

Links to other news agency pages about the event:
http://www.waltainfo.com/AmNews/2006/Oct/19Oct06/19437.htm
http://www.waltainfo.com/EnNews/2006/Oct/19Oct06/19463.htm
http://www.addisfortune.com/archive.htm Volume 7, Number 338
http://www.capitalethiopia.com/archive/2006/October/week4/interview.htm
http://www.ethpress.gov.et/Herald/articleDetail.asp?articleid=53883

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Netherlands Ambassador Alphons Hennekens

The first DOCC 1600 cc assembled in Ethiopia.

Shareholder of the Holland Car PLc Taddesse Tessema

Netherlands Ambassador Alphons Hennekens
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Shareholders of the Holland Car PLc Taddesse Tessema and Wim Guns (right) and other staffs