Bishoftu Automotive Engineering Industry is an Ethiopian manufacturing and assembly center for heavy armament, tanks and military vehicles.
While the mining Industry is still for most part in the preliminary stage of development the manufacturing sector is off to a good start.
One among the few home grown manufacturing sectors is the huge Bishoftu Automotive Industry outside Addis Ababa.
The complex is structured in five departments as follows: Maintaining light and heavy trucks used by the Ethiopian ground forces.
The department manufacturing engines and produces spare parts for tanks, armored vehicles and military trucks.