Bunker-only agency
Maingate Shipping acts as agent for bunker-only calls at Adabiya: the port notification, the anchorage or berth, the barge or supply tanker's timing, the surveyors and the bunker delivery note, with crew, spares, provisions and cash fitted into the same stop. Our partner agent at the port attends; the Mombasa desk coordinates and reports.
A bunker-only call at Adabiya has three clocks running: the vessel's passage, the barge or supply tanker's schedule and the port's permission window. Maingate Shipping's desk sets them to the same time. The Gulf of Suez at the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, part of the Port of Suez gives the setting; vessels joining the northbound convoy take crew, spares, cash and bunkers at the southern anchorage without entering the port, on the canal's timetable.
Owners, operators and managers appoint the desk for the vessel's side; traders and physical suppliers appoint it for the delivery. Both can be on one instruction, with the roles written down.
The boarding officer attends the connection, the soundings and the sampling, and the bunker delivery note is signed with any protest already recorded, because a dispute discovered a week later has no evidence behind it.
The vessel advises her ETA and the quantity and grade stemmed. The desk files the port's notification for a bunker-only call, secures the anchorage position or the berth, and confirms the barge or supply tanker's timing with the supplier so that the vessel is not waiting for the fuel and the fuel is not waiting for the vessel.
Where the vessel has not yet stemmed, the desk introduces suppliers and traders serving the port and passes their offers to the owner without taking a position in the sale.
The transfer at Adabiya follows the port's rules for the mode: barge at berth, with anchorage deliveries case by case. Weather sets the window, and the desk moves the delivery rather than force it into a sea state the supplier will not work in.
The boarding officer is on deck for the connection and the soundings and stays until the delivery note is signed.
Quantity at Adabiya is settled on deck, not in correspondence. Surveyors for the vessel attend the soundings and the sampling, the delivery note is compared with the stem before it is signed, and any shortfall is recorded in a letter of protest handed to the barge master before departure.
The desk's boarding officer keeps the times and the documents, and the owner receives them with the surveyor's report.
A bunker call is the moment to change crew, land spares, take provisions and deliver cash to master, and the desk fits these into the same stop through Cairo International Airport and by launch. Nothing waits for a separate visit.
The account shows the port charges, the agency fee, the launch hire and the services delivered, each with its receipt, and reconciles against the advance.
From anchor down to anchor up, the time is set by the quantity and the barge's pumping rate; the desk gives an estimate for each stem and keeps the vessel informed of the barge's movements.
Yes, with the roles written down so that each party knows whose instruction the desk follows for each task.
The owner's surveyor's figures are compared with the delivery note on the spot and a letter of protest is issued before the barge leaves; the desk keeps the documents for the claim.
Crew, spares, provisions, cash to master and medical attention, by the same launch or at the same berth.
Nominate Maingate Shipping and the answer comes from Mombasa with a proforma DA attached.
Bunker calls sit with port agency and anchorage services on the same desk.
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