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Vehicle Carrier Agency at Tanger Med: Car Carrier Calls at Africa’s Vehicle Export Hub

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Vehicle calls

Vehicle Carrier Agency at Tanger Med: Car Carrier Calls at Africa's Vehicle Export Hub

Tanger Med's vehicle terminal ships the output of the Tangier car plants to Europe and the world and receives vehicles for the Moroccan market, on car carrier schedules timed to the plants' production. Maingate Shipping coordinates vehicle carrier agency at Tanger Med through its partner at the port.

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Container cranes at a terminal
DeskAfrica agency line, Mombasa
AttendancePartner agent under Maingate's instruction
FormatOne DA, one reporting style
Contactops@maingateshipping.com

The port runs to a schedule that rewards early nomination, and the desk secures terminal slots and driver teams ahead of the vessel.

What the desk handles for these calls

  • Vehicle terminal berth slots
  • Export unit receipt and documentation
  • Driver team booking
  • Damage recording at survey points
  • Import discharge and customs
  • Release to importers' agents
  • Schedule against the line-up
  • Bunkers in the same call
  • Crew changes via Tangier
  • Casablanca coordinated

Terminal slots and loading

Berth slots at the vehicle terminal, export units received from the plants' logistics providers and documented for loading, driver teams booked to the loading plan, and damage recording at the terminal's survey points.

Shipping and logistics services

Imports and customs

Import units discharged, customs cleared and released to the importers' agents, and damage recorded with the terminal's survey on discharge.

Road haulage from the port

The strait and the schedule

Vessel scheduling against the terminal's line-up and the strait's traffic, bunkers and crew changes fitted into the call, and Casablanca calls on the same rotation coordinated on one instruction.

Maingate port agents on the quay at Mombasa

Maingate Shipping, Mombasa

This desk is part of Maingate Shipping Limited, the Mombasa ship agency, crewing and brokerage house that has attended vessels at Kenyan ports since 2020 from its office at Express Building, Moi Avenue. Port agency at Mombasa and Lamu is handled by the company's own boarding officers; calls elsewhere in Africa run through the Maingate agency line under one DA format and one reporting style; Kenyan seafarers are recruited and managed from the same office; and the chartering desk fixes the tonnage that brings East Africa its wheat, fertilizer, clinker and fuel.

Principals deal with one desk for the whole voyage, and every service is agreed in writing before it is performed.

Mombasa waterfront

Who instructs this desk

Operators of this vessel typeCalls planned on the operator's own rhythm.
Owners and managersHusbandry, crew and the owner's account.
CharterersTerminal and cargo coordination.
Crewing agenciesRotations in numbers.
Insurers and correspondentsAttendance and reporting.
Fleets on rotationOne desk across the region's ports.

Four steps, one desk

  1. Instruction receivedAcknowledged promptly with the desk's contact for the call.
  2. Proforma and checklistWhat the call will cost and what the desk needs from the principal and the vessel.
  3. Arrival to departureFormalities, operations, crew, bunkers and stores handled and reported daily.
  4. SettlementFinal disbursement account, receipts attached, balance settled.
Agreed in writing firstScope, fee and reporting confirmed by email before the vessel arrives, so nothing is assumed.
Daily reports that say what happenedTimes, quantities, stoppages and reasons, sent while the call is running rather than after.
Statement of facts to a laytime standardRecorded so that the owner's and the charterer's calculators can rely on it.
Final account within the agreed daysReconciled against the proforma and the advance, with the balance shown plainly.

Questions we are asked about this

How early should a car carrier be nominated at Tanger Med?

As soon as the call is fixed; the terminal's slots and driver teams are allocated ahead.

Can bunkers be taken during a vehicle call?

Yes. Tanger Med is an established bunkering port.

Do you handle Casablanca calls on the same rotation?

Yes, on one instruction.

The Vessel Does Not Care Who the Agent Is. The Account Does.

Receipts behind every line, a record behind every stoppage, a desk behind every call.

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Other desks that belong with this one

Related desks on the same instruction line.

Tanger Med port deskOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Bunker calls at Tanger MedOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Morocco deskOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Africa agency lineOne desk for every African port call.Open the desk →

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