Trading desk
Maingate Shipping began as a trading and logistics house as well as a ship agency, and the trading desk still works with importers, exporters and producers who need markets, products and the ships to connect them. Agricultural commodities, minerals, industrial chemicals and machinery move through the desk's introductions, with the chartering and agency desks moving the cargo.
The desk does not take positions for its own account in the cargoes it arranges for clients; it introduces, coordinates and ships.
Supplier and buyer introductions across East Africa, the Gulf, India and the Far East for grains, sugar, edible oils, fertilizer, clinker, steel, minerals and machinery, with the counterparties' standing checked before an introduction is made.
Independent inspection coordinated at loading and discharge, documentary requirements for the receiving country prepared with the buyer's clearing agent, and letters of credit documents assembled with the shipper.
The chartering desk fixes the tonnage and the agency desk attends the calls, so a trade introduced by the desk moves on one file from supplier to receiver.
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.
The desk introduces and coordinates trades for clients and ships the cargo; it does not take positions in the client's cargo.
Grains, sugar, edible oils, fertilizer, clinker, steel, minerals and machinery, among others.
Yes. Independent inspection is coordinated at loading and discharge on the buyer's or seller's instruction.
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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