The Mozambican government has once again firmly rejected the demands from Malawi that the Zambezi and Shire rivers be used for commercial shipping and has withdrawn from a memorandum of understanding (Mou) it had committed. According to a Reuters report, Mozambique’s senior Transport Ministry official Jafar Ruby retorted at a news conference in Maputo that the […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika and Zambia President Edgar Lungu on Tuesday held bilateral talks focusing on a range of key issues including boosting boosting trade and progress on the actualization of the Shire Zambezi World In-land Port project, regional integration and Agriculture. The two leaders held the discussion at the African Union headquarters in Addis […]
The leaders of Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique have given the Shire-Zambezi Waterway project a boost when they agreed to expedite all the processes that have been hanging thereby delaying the realization of a project that was hatched by former leader Bingu wa Mutharika. Malawi President Arthur Peter Mutharika, Fillipe Nyusi of Mozambique and Zambia’s Edgar […]
Zambian President Edgar Lungu and his Mozambican counterpart Filipe Nyusi jet in Malawi on Monday but Malawi government officials have kept under key and lock details of the visit. A statement from the Office of the President and Cabinet says Lungu and Nyusi will arrive in Malawi on Monday morning with the Zambian leader arriving […]
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 […]
The Malawi Government has compiled a comprehensive compendium of bankable projects in six broad thematic areas. It is a directory that markets keyinvestment priority sectors in Malawi. This effort needs to be commended after many years of uncoordinated investment marketing efforts. It is evident that a lot of ground work took place in coming up […]
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 has appealed to newly elected President of Zambia Edgar Lungu to support Malawi in dealing with the aftermath of the devastating floods. Mutharika made the appeal to Lungu when the two leaders met Thursday on the sidelines of the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which the two leaders attended […]
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 […]
Malawi government through the Ministry of Transport and Public work announced Thursday that construction works are set to take off at Nsanje Inland Port. Construction works were halted after Mozambique government demanded for a feasibility study before being part of the multi-million project. Phase two of the project will commence following the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has disclosed that the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) has endorsed the Nsanje World Inland Port, saying it is a gateway to the outer world. Speaking when he briefed the press at the end of the 34th Sadc Summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Mutharika said after discussing the issue of the […]
Six companies have submitted bids to draw up a viability study of the Malawian proposal to open the Zambezi and Shire rivers to international shipping, according to a report on Radio Mozambique. The bids are now under consideration by the Malawian government, the secretariat of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the African Development Bank (ADB). […]
Beleaguered Finance Minister Ken Lipenga has brought to light yet another costly mistake that his departed elevator, the late President Bingu wa Mutharika, made. As the public is still reeling to recover from his revelation that the Malawi Revenue Authority (MR) borrowed K15b to support the infamous zero deficit budget after donors withdrew aid to […]
Malawi has agreed with Mozambique that exeprts should assess the environmental and biodiversity implications of making the Shire and Zambezi rivers navigable so that they can launch an inland waterway project to the Indian Ocean giving Nsanje port a new lease of life. Mozambican newspaper Notícias reported that an agreement signed Saturday in Maputo by Malawi […]
Malawi President Mrs. Joyce Banda is this Saturday expected to arrive in neighbouring Maputo, Mozambique where topping the list of agenda is repairing of bilateral ties that came to grind halt during the eight year misrule of late president Bingu wa Mutharika. Government officials are tight lipped on the trip but according to information monitored […]
The People’s Party (PP) led government has said it will put on the shelf the highly publicised Shire-Zambezi waterway project which was a priority project in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government. The project’s objective was to substantially reduce transportation costs on which Malawi pays fortune by using other countries ports namely South Africa, Tanzania […]
The Malawian government has backtracked on its demand that Mozambique authorise merchant shipping to use the Zambezi and Shire rivers to carry goods to and from landlocked Malawi. Four delegates from Malawi’s Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development led by Minister Sidik Mia went to Mozambique to discuss with authorities of the most strategic country […]