The objective of the study was to assess the practices and challenges of Event Logistics Managementrnin ECMDE, Addis Ababa. Specifically, this study intended to explore and empirically test thernpractices and challenges of the event logistics management in three phases namely; planning phase,rnexecution phase and closing phase. In planning phase considered supply of customer, product andrnfacilities practices, execution phase considered event site logistics practices, and closing phasernconsidered in shutdown practices. A systematic literature review was made to identify variables andrntheir items to design a structured questionnaire. A total of 272 questionnaires were distributed tornOrganizers Company, ECMDEâ€™s employees, exhibitors, and stakeholders from these, 239rnquestionnaires were filled and returned with a response rate of 87.87 percent. Descriptive statisticsrnlike percent, mean and standard deviation were used to describe the practice and the challenges ofrnevent logistics management in ECMDE, Kendallâ€™s Wallis coefficient of concordant of the rank orderrnanalysis model is computed to rank the challenges affecting the event logistics in ECMDE. The resultrnof the study is triangulated using qualitative data (collected using interview, group discussion, andrnobservation). The result of the analysis in planning phase supply of customer practices revealed thatrnit was moderately practiced, but supply of product, supply of facilities, in execution phase on-sitern(event) site logistics and closing phase shutdown practices resulted in poor practice in thernorganization and hence the challenges were found to be strong. The top four ranked (severe)rnchallenges are Economic, Technological, environmental and social challenges. Finally this studyrnrecommend that while perform event logistics management during planning, execution and closingrnphase should upgrading the infrastructures, stakeholders should coordinate and jointly preparernappropriate logistics plan, assess the risk before execution phase, should implement standard eventrnlogistics management procedure in all phases, provide oversea exhibitors registration proceduresrnand incentives, should be provided to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of grand bazaar andrnfestival the flow of equipment, good, artists and VIP to be fast, managing crowded, wasternmanagement system should be implemented, emergency procedures protocols should be provided,rnand additional expansion building, space and features needed to handle international and big events,rnin shutdown event should focus on increasing the efficiency of the staff to fast removal of equipment,rntemporary building and installations to provide ready for next event, improve fast exit clearnessrnpermission procedure and provide fast checking on evacuation of participants.