Everything about The Lake Victoria Ferries totally explained
The
Lake Victoria ferries are and were
steam- and
diesel-powered ships used for freight and passenger transport between
Uganda,
Tanzania and
Kenya on
Lake Victoria. The main
ports on the lake are
Kisumu,
Mwanza,
Bukoba,
Entebbe,
Port Bell and
Jinja.
Typical journey times between
Port Bell, in Uganda and
Kisumu, in Kenya, are 13 hours and between Port Bell and
Mwanza, in Tanzania, are 19 hours.
The original ferries serving the
Uganda Railway in the early
1900s, were built in
Britain, disassembled, transported in parts by sea to
Mombasa and by rail to Kisumu and reassembled.
RMS Victoria was built at the
Yarrow shipyard in
Glasgow.
The successor to Uganda Railway links
Mombasa to the port of Kisumu on Lake Victoria. A Tanzanian railway links Mwanza and
Dodoma, the administrative capital of Tanzania (rail service from Dodoma to the port of
Dar Es Salaam has been discontinued). This network allows countries of the African interior such as Uganda and
Rwanda to transport freight to and from world markets.
Other lakes in the region such as
Lake Tanganyika,
Lake Malawi and
Lake Albert have used ferries which were sometimes linked to railways in a similar way.
In May 1996, the Tanzanian ferry,
MV Bukoba sunk with the loss of 800 lives.
On April 28, 2006 the Tanzanian cargo and passenger ferry
Mv Nyamageni capsized. It was carrying over forty passengers, with many feared dead
(External Link
).
At present Uganda has three freight ferries on Lake Victoria:
MV Pamba,
MV Kaawa and
MV Kabalega.
Tanzania operated
MV Uhuru (now suspended, see
(External Link)) and
Kenya operates
MV Umoja.
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