Lake Niassa: Chambo ferry resumes operations between Mozambique and Malawi

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Lake Niassa: Chambo ferry resumes operations between Mozambique and Malawi

12:08 CAT | 16 Oct 2020

Photo: RM

After about six months out of service, the Chambo ferry is back transporting people and goods between Mozambique and Malawi on Lake Niassa.

The interruption in service was imposed by the state of emergency enacted by the government due to the new coronavirus.

Lago district administrator David Machimbuco told Radio Mozambique that the operator had accumulated huge losses during the shutdown, having kept paying the sailors’ salaries and buying fuel to run the ferry’s engines, despite it being at anchor.

The resumption of Chambo navigation will return a certain dynamic to the life of the local population, Machimbuco pointed out.

Lake Niassa, also known as Lake Malawi in Malawi and Lake Nyasa in Tanzania, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania.

Source: Rádio Moçambique