{"id":140671,"date":"2025-09-21T18:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:21:48","slug":"relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service","title":{"rendered":"Relief as MV Butiama resumes Mwanza-Ukerewe service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span>MV Butiama Hapa Kazi tu has today, September 20, 2025, resumed its Mwanza-Ukerewe service after undergoing a 9-month major rehabilitation.<\/p>\n<p>The Tanzania Shipping Company Limited\u2019s Head of Marketing, Mr Anselm Namala, revealed today, giving relief to the residents after MV Butiama stopped services in December due to a lack of stability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ship seemed to have gone sideways, only to let the company immediately take it to its workshop in Mwanza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe apologize for the long maintenance. It is because we couldn\u2019t in any way endanger the lives of passengers, crews and the vessel itself. It is now back, with full safety being guaranteed,\u201d he said during the ship\u2019s service resumption in Ukerewe.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukerewe District\u2019s Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) Chairperson, Mr Khamis Mambile, also commented the efforts, saying that apart from MV Butiama\u2019s resume, the government has also in the same month, provided the newly constructed two ferries to serve the Bukondo-Bwiro, as well as Lugezi Kisorya Islands in Ukerewe.<\/p>\n<p>The District Commissioner, Mr Christopher Ngubiagai, commented that improvements of marine transport meant a lot to Ukerewe residents, mostly smoothing both people and cargo transportation, especially Lake Victoria\u2019s products from the islands to Mwanza city\u2019s markets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Tanzania<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. MV Butiama Hapa Kazi tu has today, September 20, 2025, resumed its Mwanza-Ukerewe service after undergoing a 9-month major rehabilitation. The Tanzania Shipping Company Limited\u2019s Head of Marketing, Mr Anselm Namala, revealed today, giving relief to the residents after MV Butiama stopped services in December due to a lack of stability. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":140670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[711],"class_list":["post-140671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Relief as MV Butiama resumes Mwanza-Ukerewe service - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MV Butiama Hapa Kazi tu has today, September 20, 2025, resumed its Mwanza-Ukerewe service after undergoing a 9-month maj ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Relief as MV Butiama resumes Mwanza-Ukerewe service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"MV Butiama Hapa Kazi tu has today, September 20, 2025, resumed its Mwanza-Ukerewe service after undergoing a 9-month maj ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-21T18:38:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-21T19:21:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2025\/09\/sm_1758465772.356874.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"470\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Relief as MV Butiama resumes Mwanza-Ukerewe service\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-21T18:38:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-21T19:21:48+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service\"},\"wordCount\":221,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2025\/09\/sm_1758465772.356874.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/relief-as-mv-butiama-resumes-mwanza-ukerewe-service\",\"name\":\"Relief as MV Butiama resumes Mwanza-Ukerewe service - 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