MV Malali completes dry docking

The refurbished MV Malali (T&HD photo)

The MV Malali ferry which usually plies the Parika-Wakenaam-Supenaam-Parika route, completed its dry docking at the E.C Vieira Investment Ltd Dry Docking facility on October 9, 2014 after extensive rehabilitation was done on the vessel.

A release from the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) yesterday said that the ferry entered the dock yard on September 1, 2014 after dry docking and rehabilitation works were awarded to the E.C. Vieira Investment Ltd at a cost of one hundred and eighteen million nine hundred and fifty two thousand dollars. Dr. Clinton Hazel was assigned as the Project Engineer.

Some of the repair works included the construction of a new canteen on the Passenger’s Deck,