The Industrial Relations Case (IRC) in Blantyre was on Tuesday forced to adjourn a case in which eight employees that were abruptly fired by Vale Logistics of Brazil dragged their employer to the court for alleged unfair dismissals. Lawyer representing the eight, but are now seven after one of them died, did not show up […]
Brazilian firm Vale Logistics and Mwanza District Council have agreed to form a social committee to take care of social issues emanating from operations of the Nacala Corridor Railway line. Vale Logistics Community Relations Analyst, Joseph Kapito, said the committee, once instituted will be responsible for addressing social concerns from both the company and the […]
Corredor Logistico Integrado de Nacala (CLN) and Vale logistics have handed over 10 motorcycles worthy K39 million to Machinga police to promote community safety and deal with theft of cargo and encroachment along the railway line in the district. Malawi Police Service Commissioner responsible for Community Policing, Willy Mwaluka received the Yamaha 125 model Monday […]
Vale Logistics and its partner Mitsui of Japan have unveiled a new ambitious railway rehabilitation program for Nkaya-Mchinji route. Officials broke the news during an official launch of a US$1billion (K750billion) Malawi stretch of the Nacala Corridor Railway line. ” We are in final stages to work with Malawi government and get the Nkaya-Mchinji railway […]
Government wants Malawian investors to be owning shares in Brazilian company Vale Logistics and is renegotiating the deal to rehabilitate and build a railway through the country. In December 2011, the Malawi government signed a concession agreement involving Mozambique and Vale. Vale was to rehabilitate and build 136 kilometres of railway cutting across Malawi as […]
Since independence, Malawians has lived to believe that economy of the country is agriculture, many people know that the major contributing factor to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is agriculture and nothing else. With this mindset all efforts as far as increasing the GDP are put to agriculture, yet there are more ways as […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Thursday commissioned the construction of a $1 billion railway line from Kachaso to Nkaya to ferry both passengers and minerals through the nation and is expected to create over 3,000 jobs. President Banda laid the foundation stone in the southern district of Neno where it will connect Mozambique coal mines at […]
It is not just any other presidential diary as the country’s Head of State Joyce Banda will Thursday ground-break for a US $1bn new railway line that will transport 18 million tonnes of coal from Mozambique. Brazil’s Vale will build a new 138.5 km (86 mile) line from Chikhwawa in the south, to meet an existing line […]
The long awaited rail rehabilitation deal signed by the government of Malawi and new owner of Central East African Railways (Cear) would see the country’s good now going and coming by rail using Beira port. The government put pen to paper on Thursday in Lilongwe with Vale Mining of Brazil that to reconstruct the rail-line […]