Bulk calls
Bulk carriers bring Mombasa its wheat, maize, clinker, fertilizer, coal and steel, and they are the vessels where an agent's attention makes the biggest difference to the voyage account. Maingate Shipping attends handysize to panamax bulk carriers at the grain silo berths, the conventional berths and the anchorage, for owners, charterers and receivers.
The desk plans each call around the berth line-up, the receiver's readiness, the stevedores' shift pattern and the port's working hours, so that the vessel's time at Mombasa is spent working, not waiting.
Grain goes to the silo berths, clinker and fertilizer to the conventional berths with grabs and hoppers, steel and bagged cargo to the general cargo berths. The desk books the berth, confirms the receiver's trucks or silo space, and checks that hold inspection, fumigation clearance and customs release will not hold the vessel.
Boarding officer at arrival, hold inspection witnessed, daily discharge figures reconciled between ship, stevedores and receiver, stoppages recorded, and draft surveys arranged at the charterer's or receiver's request. The statement of facts is prepared to the standard a laytime calculation needs.
Export cargoes such as soda ash, clinker and agricultural products load at Mombasa on bulk and general cargo vessels. The desk handles hold cleanliness inspections, loading plans, shipper's documents and the bill of lading process with the shipper and the master.
Maingate Shipping Limited is a ship agency, crew management and ship brokerage company based at Express Building on Moi Avenue in Mombasa, Kenya, serving vessels at Kenyan ports since 2020 and coordinating port calls across Africa through its agency line. The company attends bulk carriers, tankers, container ships, car carriers, cruise ships, fishing, offshore and naval vessels at Mombasa and Lamu, places Kenyan seafarers with owners worldwide, and fixes dry bulk, tanker and project tonnage for East African cargoes.
One instruction to the desk covers the port call, the crew, the fuel and the account, and the same office answers the master and the principal at any hour.
It depends on the silo's intake rate and the receiver's evacuation; the desk gives a realistic estimate for each vessel from current port conditions rather than a generic figure.
Yes. Independent draft surveyors are appointed on the charterer's or receiver's instruction and attend initial and final surveys.
Yes. Crew changes, stores, bunkers, surveys and spares are arranged at the anchorage while the vessel waits.
One instruction, one account, one contact for the master and one for the principal.
Related desks on the same instruction line.
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