Country desk
Port Victoria on Mahé serves the tuna purse seine fleet, the cannery, container feeders, cruise ships and yachts. Crew changes for fishing vessels and supply vessels are a steady part of the port's life.
Maingate Shipping Limited coordinates ship agency across Seychelles for owners, charterers, managers, traders and lines. The trade through Seychellois ports is containers, fuel, foodstuffs and building materials inbound; canned and frozen tuna outbound. The inner and outer islands by inter-island vessel.
Formalities: the Seychelles Ports Authority and the fishing authority share the waterfront. The desk works with them on every call and keeps the principal clear of the detail unless the detail matters.
Operational note for Seychelles: fishing vessel agency, provisioning and crew rotation are the core of the business, with cruise and yacht calls in season.
Each port has its own desk with the terminals, the cargo and the services a call needs.
Seychelles's ports are Port Victoria. Port Victoria handles containers, fuel, foodstuffs and building materials inbound, with canned and frozen tuna outbound through the commercial quay, the fishing port serving the tuna purse seine fleet, the cannery berths and the yacht marinas.
Calls at each port are attended by our partner agent there under Maingate's instruction, with the Mombasa desk issuing the proforma DA, tracking the call and closing the account.
The inner and outer islands by inter-island vessel. Corridor cargo means transit bonds, delivery orders, rail or road evacuation and receivers who are far from the quay. The desk coordinates the clearing agents and the transport so that discharge is not held by paperwork and the cargo's documents follow it inland.
Where a cargo is split between Seychellois ports or between Seychelles and a neighbouring country, the sequence is planned as one voyage with one file.
The Seychelles Ports Authority and the fishing authority share the waterfront. Pre-arrival notices, customs and immigration formalities, health clearance and port documentation are filed by the desk at each port in the form the authority expects.
Principals receive a pre-arrival confirmation, daily reports during the call and a departure report with the statement of facts.
Husbandry in Seychelles is planned port by port: fishing vessel agency, provisioning and crew rotation are the core of the business, with cruise and yacht calls in season. The desk chooses the port for the crew change, the stem and the spares with the itinerary in view and tells the principal at nomination.
Protecting agency for owners runs alongside the charterer's agent where the charter party gives the charterer the appointment.
The desk advises from the cargo, the receiver's location and the port's current draft and berth position; the port desks in this cluster set out the facts for each.
Our partner agent at each port, appointed and instructed by Maingate Shipping; the Mombasa desk coordinates and is responsible to the principal.
Transit bonds, delivery orders and evacuation are coordinated with the receiver's clearing agent so that discharge is not held and the documents follow the cargo inland.
Yes, at the ports where each is available; the port desks state the position for crew changes and bunkers.
An agency fee per call agreed in the proforma DA, with port and third-party charges at cost and receipts attached.
Receipts behind every line, a record behind every stoppage, a desk behind every call.
The Seychelles desk connects to the port desks below and to the Africa agency line.
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