Trade lane
East Africa's millers and relief agencies buy wheat, corn and barley from the Black Sea ports of Ukraine, Russia and Romania, and the cargo sails through the Bosphorus and the Suez Canal to Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Djibouti in handysize and supramax lots. Maingate Shipping's desk in Mombasa fixes the tonnage and attends the discharge, for traders, millers, relief agencies and owners.
The lane runs on quality certificates, phytosanitary clearance and silo intake rates, and the desk has all three in hand before the vessel arrives.
Milling wheat for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda's mills, corn and sorghum for relief programmes, barley for the breweries, on FOB and CIF terms from the Black Sea exporters and the international trading houses.
Handysize and supramax bulk carriers fixed with laycans matched to the exporter's loading windows, Suez Canal transit planned with the owner, and laytime terms that reflect the East African silo berths' intake rates and weather working days.
Silo berth booking at Mombasa with intake capacity confirmed, phytosanitary and fumigation clearance ahead of arrival, standards sampling, draft surveys arranged for the charterer or receiver, and relief cargo reported to the agency's standard.
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.
Yes. Repeat wheat programmes are structured as contracts of affreightment with a laycan pattern and a running reconciliation.
Yes, with reporting to the agency's standard.
Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Djibouti, with Beira and Nacala for the southern corridors.
Receipts behind every line, a record behind every stoppage, a desk behind every call.
Related desks on the same instruction line.
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