Cargo desk
Cargo that arrives on a vessel Maingate Shipping attends can leave the port on the same instruction: customs declaration, duty payment, port release, transport and delivery to the importer's yard or the transit border. The desk handles clearance and forwarding for importers, traders and receivers in Kenya and the landlocked countries served through Mombasa.
One desk for the ship and the cargo means the delivery order, the customs release and the truck are ready when the cargo lands, which is where most demurrage and storage is saved.
Customs declarations lodged on the port's and customs' systems, duties and taxes computed and paid, standards and phytosanitary inspections coordinated, port charges settled and the delivery order released to the transporter.
Transit bonds for cargo bound for Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan, Burundi and eastern DR Congo, single customs territory declarations where they apply, and the corridor documents that follow the cargo to the border.
Transport booked by road or rail to the inland container depots, the importer's yard or the border, with tracking and proof of delivery, and the file closed with the receiver's acknowledgement.
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. Clearance and forwarding are offered to any importer; the advantage of one desk is greatest when the ship and the cargo are on the same file.
Yes, with transit bonds and corridor documents to the border or the inland depot.
Duties, port charges and transport at cost with receipts, plus an agreed clearing fee.
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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