Transport remains a problem for people of Likoma and Chizumulu Islands as MV Ilala is reportedly suspended following resumption of workers sit-in at Malawi Shipping Company over unmet demands for salary hike. On June 18 this year, the workers staged another strike forcing management to increase their wages, but the management obtained a court injunction […]
Malawi Shipping Company has withdrawn MV Ilala from Lake Malawi waters for routine maintenance. Company spokesperson Thomas Chafunya has said MV Chilembwe will replace MV Ilala which goes for maintenance this Friday. “MV Ilala will undergo routine maintenance for three weeks,” said Chafunya. He said passengers will pay MV Ilala fares on MV Chilembwe. People […]
Barely twelve months after passengers travelling on Lake Malawi struggled to board or off load goods at Nkhata Bay jetty due to its collapse last year, the jetty on Friday night sunk again due to strong north easterly winds that blew. The jetty was constructed in 1957, and many observers argue that it has outlived […]
Multinational conglomerate Mota Engil Group through its water transport shipping arm Malawi Shipping Company (MSC) has unveiled a multi-milion dollar state-of-the-art-Malawi-soil-built ship, MV Chilembwe. The company took business journalists around its ship yard at Monkey Bay Port in Mangochi on Wednesday to appreciate the progress the company has made so far after being granted a concession to […]
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 […]
Authorities from Marine department have declared MV Chambo, a new vessel from Mozambique owned by Mota Engil which has come to replace the grounded MV Ilala. The vessel which docked at Nkhata-Bay port at exactly 03:30 in the afternoon on Friday flying a Mozambican flag was previously plying its trade between Khobwe and Matengula in […]
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 […]