There are some 1500 private buses in Eritrea, most of them old to very old. There are locally built buses (in Ethiopia, before Eritrea's independence) and secondhand buses. Most of the latter are Italian though a few Scandinavian buses were seen. It is not always easy to distinguish imported Italian buses from locally built ones. There probably also has been assembly of Italian buses in Eritrea/Ethiopia. recently new Chinese buses are being made available to provate operators. We have tried to create a good overview by grouping buses.