Clinker calls
Kenya's cement industry imports clinker, gypsum, slag and pozzolana by the shipload, and exports clinker and cement to the region. Maingate Shipping acts as port agent for these bulk carriers at Mombasa's conventional berths, for the cement producers, the traders and the owners and charterers who bring the cargo in.
Clinker discharge is a matter of grabs, hoppers and trucks, and of keeping the dust and the weather from stopping the operation. The desk runs the call so that the receiver's trucks, the stevedores' shifts and the vessel's hatches move together.
Conventional berths with mobile harbour cranes or the vessel's own gear, grabs sized for clinker, hoppers with dust control and a truck loading arrangement that keeps the quay clear. The desk confirms the equipment and the receiver's truck fleet before the vessel berths.
Daily discharge figures reconciled between ship, stevedores and receiver, stoppages for rain, shift changes and truck shortages recorded, hatch sequencing agreed with the master, and final cleaning and sweeping organised so that the vessel sails clean.
Cement producers ship clinker on contracts of affreightment with regular calls, and the desk keeps a running record across the programme so that each voyage's laytime and quantities are settled promptly.
Maingate Shipping Limited, Mombasa: ship agents at Kenyan ports since 2020, crew managers and recruiters of Kenyan seafarers, ship brokers for the East African trades, and the coordinating desk for port calls across Africa. The office at Express Building on Moi Avenue is a short drive from Kilindini Harbour and Moi International Airport, which is why crew, spares and cash reach vessels at Mombasa without a wasted hour.
The company works for owners, charterers, managers, traders, lines, clubs and fleets, and puts its terms, its DAs and its reports in writing.
It depends on the crane, grab size and truck availability; the desk advises a realistic rate for each call from current berth conditions.
Yes, and the desk arranges crew changes, stores and surveys while the vessel waits for berth.
Bagged and bulk cement exports to the region load at Mombasa on the same desk's attendance.
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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