Trade lane
European engineering companies, EPC contractors and relief organisations ship plant, equipment, vehicles and aid cargo to East Africa from Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Genoa and Marseille on multipurpose liner services and chartered vessels. Maingate Shipping's desk in Mombasa fixes the tonnage where a charter is needed, books part-cargo space where it is not, and attends the discharge.
The lane's cargoes are documented to European standards and received under East African ones, and the desk bridges the two.
Power plant and water treatment equipment, mining and construction machinery, rail equipment, new vehicles and buses, relief vehicles and supplies, and breakbulk steel and pipes, plus the container services from northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Multipurpose and heavy lift charters for full project cargoes, part-cargo bookings on the multipurpose liner services for smaller consignments, and lifting and lashing terms agreed with the shipper's forwarder.
Port agency at Mombasa by our own staff with lifting plans and project customs, and the corridor move to Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and eastern DR Congo coordinated with the receiver's forwarder and the hauliers who move abnormal loads.
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. Relief vehicles and supplies are attended with the reporting the agencies expect.
Yes. Part-cargo bookings on multipurpose liner services are often the economical answer.
Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Genoa and Marseille through the shippers' forwarders and agents there.
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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