Government says the multi-billion kwacha Shire- Zambezi Waterway Project is no longer a priority. Ministry of Transport and Public Works spokesperson Andrew Mthiko said the government is concentrating on rehabilitating the old Sena corridor; the railway line from Limbe to Beira port in Mozambique, instead. Mthiko said the decision is in line with the 2017 […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has said the colour dream of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika—the Nsanje Inland Port—which cost the country $20 million, is not a priority for government right now. Chakwera made the stand in Parliament on Wednesday when he was responding to members of parliament questions. The President was asked about his […]
Malawi says talks with Maputo over the Nsanje Inland port are going on at high level, saying all diplomatic channels are open and functional. Malawi’s High Commissioner to Mozambique Frank Viyazi has said this in reaction to a news article in Norticias newspaper recently which said all talks on the issue are now shut. The […]
An influential newspaper in Mozambique has described as a closed affair the issue of Nsanje Inland Port. The Portuguese language Noticias newspaper says Maputo is not in talks with Lilongwe and has nothing to talk to Malawi about the port in Nsanje. This comes barely a week after president Peter Mutharika said in Nsanje that […]
President Peter Mutharika has disclosed that government is ready to revive the much-touted Nsanje World Inland Port project, which has already cost the taxpayer billions of kwacha, as the project awaits approval from neighouring Mozambique government. President Mutharika said this on Sunday at Nsanje Boma after inspecting Nsanje-Marka road upgrading project during a whistle-stop tour […]
President Peter Mutharika has said the Nsanje Inland Port – one of the flagship projects in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) 2014 manifesto—will become functional in the next two years. Mutharika said on Thursday in Nsanje during after the ground breaking ceremony of Nsanje–Marka Road. President Mutharika said that he will fulfill his late brother Bingu […]
Malawi Congress Party (MCP) presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera has promised to revive and complete Nsanje World Inland Port once voted into power during the May 21 elections, accusing the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration for using the project as a deliberate ploy to defraud taxpayers money. Chakwera made the remarks on Friday when he […]
The colour dream of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika—the Nsanje Inland Port— should come to reality by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) fulfilling its campaign promise in establishing the much-touted Nsanje World Inland Port project, which has already cost the taxpayer billions of kwacha, otherwise the party may lose next year’s election, an opposition […]
Malawi Government has accused Mozambique of standing on the way of former president Bingu wa Mutharika’s signature dream project of Nsanje Inland Port now adopted by President Peter Mutharika. Spokesperson for the ministry of Transport and Public Works James Chakwera said a Sadc feasibility study cleared the government to start the waterway project. “The Sadc […]
The Parliamentary Committee for Transport and Public Infrastructure has decried the current status of the Nsanje in-land Port. Speaking to the Malawi News Agency (MANA) Monday, the committee chairperson Victor Mbewe said unless the port is heavily dredged, it will not be operational. The committee visited the port to appreciate its status. It is currently […]
Government officials are set to meet their Mozambican counterparts on August 22 to discuss the Nsanje Inland Port project which has stalled for years now. Transport and Public Works minister Malison Ndau confirmed he will be meeting his Mozambican counterpart from August 22 in Beira, Mozambique. “Last week I met the secretary general of Sadc […]
Malawians are anxiously waiting for the results of feasibity study that is to determine whether Shire river is navigable or not with Mozambique saying giving faint hopes of adopting the report. Transport ministers from Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi are currently meeting in Lilongwe to discuss a report on the navigability of Shire in a closed […]
The fate of the joint feasibility report of the Shire – Zambezi waterway project awaits the scrutiny and approval of three transport ministers from Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique before it can be submitted to SADC. For this year’s summit that is impossible because the three minsters that were scheduled to meet in Malawi from 6 […]
One of Malawi government’s infamous bequests from the late President Bingu wa Mutharika, the much touted multi million Kwacha Nsanje Inland Port is missing from the SADC agenda. This is the fourth consecutive year that the ambitious colour dream of Bingu wa Mutharika is slowly revolving into another white elephant and tangible evidence of blatant […]
Landlocked Malawi has continuously searched for means of reducing the cost of doing international trade and related logistics. The cost of moving cargoto and from the various sea ports in neighbouring countries has a huge impact on the final delivery cost of commodities. This has rendered Malawian exports unattractive on the international market and makes […]
President Peter Mutharika who is currently in the United States of America continues to have fruitful discussions in his schedule with the latest being a meeting with the president and the Chief Executive Officer of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), Civil Society Network and the Foundation for Democracy in Africa who are committed to […]
President Peter Mutharika Friday unveiled investment opportunities of Malawi to business captains at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York, US at a luncheon organized by the Corporate Council on Africa. The Corporate Council on Africa, established in1993, is at the forefront of strengthening and facilitating the commercial relationship between the United States and the […]
Whether the multi Million dollar Nsanje inland port project becomes merely a place for tourist attraction or be used for its intended transportation purpose lays in the outcome of the ongoing detailed feasibility study to be out early next year. Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Public Works Rexie Lyson Chiluzi says once […]