Category: Business

* Finalizing plans to improve the use of its own power with ESCOM support * So that it can further reduce its power demand from ESCOM * Enabling ESCOM to provide increased access to power for new and existing users By Duncan Mlanjira Illovo Sugar Malawi Plc — in partnership with Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) — has started reducing its power demand by 4 megawatts during its off-peak business hours through shifting its irrigation practices as part…

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* Malawi can have the cheapest of everything but the people will still suffer * Because they can hardly make enough money to buy the cheapest of things * They compare with other countries where a domestic worker is getting almost K150,000 By Duncan Mlanjira In defending the astronomic fuel price increase, National Oil Company of Malawi (NOCMA) deputy chief executive officer, Helen Buluma alluded that the prices are cheaper in Malawi, saying petrol was supposed to be at…

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* During this difficult time, President Lazarus Chakwera approved the reintroduction of both old and new levies or taxes on prices of fuel * Yet the President and his Ministers are given free fuel for doing absolutely nothing at the expense of the poor Consumers * CAMA is also asking the President to immediately come up with realistic austerity measures for himself and his friends in Cabinet By Duncan Mlanjira Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) says the recent high…

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PIL will now be transporting its fuel products using cargo trains from the Mozambican port of Nacala * The supplier in Tanzania, Camel Oil is offering the rates that are lower than MERA’s prescribed Fuel Haulage Rates * Which have just been revised upwards on the 10th of April, 2022 * Thus NOCMA committing to top up the difference between the two rates to be within the country’s Regulated Rates * NOCMA offering the Association a Credit Facility for…

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The solar farm at Kamuzu International Airport * This has come at a time when the country is still facing difficulties in power supply * A lot of areas across the country are experiencing more blackouts due to load shedding of about 4-6 hours per day By Ivy Kapaswiche, MANA Airport Development Limited (ADL) says it is finalising all processes to expand its solar farm project at Kamuzu International Airport (KIA) to contribute more onto the national power supply. This…

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