Malawi has dramatically ramped up plans to build a brand new north-bound railway connecting the landlocked nation to the Tanzania-Zambia rail network, in a bold bid to slash transport costs that are currently crippling businesses and piling fresh misery onto struggling households. The ambitious scheme would link Malawi to the Tazara line — the bi-national […]
Malawi Police in Mchinji have arrested a Zambian and three Malawians for vandalising a railway infrastructure valued at K30 million in the district. Mchinji Police publicist Kaitano Lubrino identified the Zambian as Geoffrey Mbewe from Vubwi District in Zambia. He said Mbewe together with three Malawians, namely, Happy Kachala (20), Paul Banda, 28, and Vincent […]
Minister of Transport and Public Works, Jappie Mhango has said government is working towards reviving railway transport in a bid to reduce the cost of goods that is resulting from over dependence on the expensive road transport. He said this in Salima on Friday when he inspected the railway overhauling project for the Nacala to […]
Government says the reconstruction of Limbe –Marka railway line will commence soon because it has secured $365 000 (about K262 million) for the project. Ministry of Transport and Public Works Railway Services Department Director Geoffrey Magwede made the announcement during a meeting with Nsanje District Council development service committee on the commencement of the construction […]
President Peter Mutharika says government is rolling out arevolutionary infrastructure development with a National Transport Master Plan (NTMP) aimed at guiding the development of the transport sector in roads, ships and airports to be implemented up to the year 2037. In his State of the Nation Address during the opening of the Third Meeting of the […]
Malawi is expected to benefit from a US$2.3 billion contract with funding from the Chinese government has signed with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation for the construction of of a rail link between central Zambia and the Malawian border. The 388-kilometer railway, to run from the eastern town of Chipata to the central town of […]
Malawi’s Central East African Railways (CEAR) has partnered with neighbouring Zambian Railway Company as one way of maximizing its profit-making endeavours, Nyasa Times has established. The deal is expected to up the country’s economic exploits significantly. “The country will benefit in terms of monetary value,” said Chisomo Mwamadi, CEAR publicist, to local Zodiak Broadcasting Station. […]
Two months after disclosing in an interview with Nyasa Times that the Central East African Railways (CEAR) will purchase additional coaches, the company has announced it is buying five locomotives. CEAR communications officer, Chisomo Mwamadi, told Nyasa Times on Wednesday that after analyzing operations for 2013, it was discovered that the company fell short of […]
Government says upgrading and reconstruction of the 201 kilometre railway line from Limbe to Nsanje would roll out after the project’s detailed engineering designs are released in October this year. A monitoring and evaluation report from the Ministry of Transport and Public Works seen by Nyasa Times says Comesa-Eac and Sadc have availed $16.4 million […]