Trade lane
China, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia supply East Africa with steel, machinery, project cargo for railways, ports and power plants, vehicles, clinker, rice and consumer goods, on container services, breakbulk and heavy lift vessels and bulk carriers. Maingate Shipping's desk in Mombasa serves this lane for Far East shippers, EPC contractors, East African importers and the owners trading it.
Project cargo is the lane's signature: pieces that need a lifting plan at the Chinese loadport and another at Mombasa, and a desk that has planned both.
Steel structures and coils, plant and machinery, transformers and turbines, locomotives and rolling stock, vehicles, clinker and rice in bulk, and the container services that connect Shanghai, Ningbo, Qingdao and Ho Chi Minh City with Mombasa and Dar es Salaam.
Multipurpose and heavy lift vessels fixed for project cargo, part-cargo bookings on liner services for one or two pieces, lifting and lashing terms in the charter, and the discharge port's capability confirmed before the ship is fixed.
Port agency at Mombasa by our own staff with lifting plans, customs under project arrangements and road permits, and the Northern Corridor move to Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan coordinated with the receiver's forwarder.
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.
Yes. The desk sources multipurpose and heavy lift tonnage and confirms the discharge feasibility before fixing.
Yes. The desk takes the port and lifting responsibilities and coordinates with the forwarder's logistics team.
Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti and Nacala, depending on the project's corridor.
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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Maingate Shipping Limited · Express Building, Moi Avenue, Mombasa, Kenya · ops@maingateshipping.com · +254 784 622 091