MV KALANGALA DIDN’T SAIL AFTER ALL
Posted on 14 September 2009 by Railways Africa Editor
The withdrawal from service during August of the Lake Victoria ferry MV Kalangala was explained by the Ugandan minister of works and transport as enabling inspection to take place and “to get a new licence after the existing one expired”. It was widely promised in media statements that the vessel would be back for a scheduled voyage from Entebbe on 3 September. “Scores” of travellers arrived but were told that the ship was not sailing. Ministry of works public relations officer Susan Kataike said the MV Kalangala was brought back from inspection in Mwanza, Tanzania, on 24 August but the surveyors found “some mechanical problems that they ordered the government to rectify before the ship is licensed to resume carrying passengers.” Infuriated would-be travellers complained bitterly that no advance warning was given, affording them no opportunity to make alternative arrangements.
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