# Hawassa International Airport (AWA)

> Hawassa, ET · IATA: AWA · ICAO: HALA · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `AWA` |
| ICAO | `HALA` |
| City | Hawassa |
| Country | ET |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 1661 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 7.09987, 38.39619 |

## Description

Garments and knitwear from Hawassa Industrial Park set the logistics rhythm around Hawassa International Airport (AWA/HALA) in southern Ethiopia. Ethiopian Airlines serves the field on the short domestic run to Addis Ababa and the traffic is overwhelmingly passenger: AWA has no freighter operations, no dedicated cargo terminal and only incidental belly capacity. Export boxes therefore leave by truck, cleared either at the Hawassa dry port opened in 2018, which keeps a satellite office inside the industrial park, or at Modjo, the inland terminal roughly 75 km south-east of Addis Ababa that handles the bulk of Ethiopia's containerised trade. From Modjo the Ethiopia-Djibouti railway has cut the run to the seaport to some 10 to 15 hours. Time-critical airfreight is consolidated instead at the Ethiopian Cargo & Logistics Services terminal at Addis Ababa Bole (ADD), about 275 road kilometres to the north. Realistic alternatives are ADD for consolidated airfreight and Djibouti (JIB) for sea-air combinations; treat AWA itself as a feeder and customs point rather than a handling station.

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