At least 396 passengers disembarking from the MVIllala ship have been screened for Coronavirus (COVID-19) at Kariba Port in Nkhotakota as a measure to prevent the spread of the disease. Nkhotakota Health Care Workers, put up the measure since some of the passengers aboard the ship were coming from the neighboring Mozambique through Likoma Island. […]
Residents at Chilumba island have to dig deeper from their pockets to buy a bag of maize which is now selling four times the recommended government price because of the withdrawal of MV Ilala from the Lake Malawi waters. MV Ilala has been docked pending routine maintenance works. People at Chilumba say the docking of […]
MV Illala, which resumed its services on Friday after a four month break, and failed to dock at Nkhata Bay Jetty pontoon on Saturday because it was the first time to use it, has on Monday safely docked. On Saturday the Captain thought it wise to be safe and docked 100 metres from the jetty and […]
MV Ilala, which resumed its services on Friday after a four month break, failed to dock at Nkhata Bay jetty because it is too small to service big ships. The Ilala docked 100 metres from the jetty and some boats were used to ferry people from the ship to the jetty. Passengers were told off […]
Malawi’s Transport Minister Mohammed Sidik Mia has assured islanders of Likoma and other water transport users that the MV ILALA is normal and fully functional. Mia also said transport challenges on Lake Malawi will soon be a thing of the past as government has engaged a new company to fully work on the country’s water […]
Malawi Shipping Company (MSC) says it will expeditiously work hard to bring back on the waters of Lake Malawi the Ilala which it termed as a Pride of Malawi. The Ilala lost power in one of its two newly installed engines on Tuesday December 3 miles away from the Nkhatabay port on its route to […]
Member of Parliament for Likoma Island Olivia Thundu says people of Likoma Island, an exclave of Malawi are grateful to President Joyce Banda as the MV Ilala ship is back on the Lake Malawi waters Thundu told parliament that people of Likoma Island were facing transport problems due to the absence of the ship because they mostly […]
Member of Parliament for Likoma sland Olivia Thundu wanted to know when the Ilala ship will sail again on the waters of Lake Malawi. She asked the minister of transport and public works in parliament Thursday, adding that people of Likoma Island are facing transport problems due to the absence of the ship. “I just […]