Fishing calls
Tuna purse seiners, longliners and the reefer carriers that collect their catch work the western Indian Ocean from ports at Port Victoria, Port Louis, Dar es Salaam and Mombasa. Maingate Shipping acts as agent for fishing vessels calling Mombasa for crew changes, provisions, repairs, transshipment and licensing formalities.
Fishing calls run on the fleet's schedule, not the port's, and the desk arranges the services so that the vessel spends the shortest possible time away from the fishing grounds.
Kenya's fisheries authority licenses foreign fishing vessels and inspects catches and transshipments. The desk handles the applications, the port inspections and the catch documentation the fleet's flag and the regional fisheries body require.
Fishing crews are large and multinational; crew changes at Mombasa are planned with immigration, the airlines and the fleet's manning agents. Provisions, ice, bait, nets and spares are sourced locally, and repairs are arranged with the yards and workshops in Mombasa.
Catch transshipment to reefer carriers in port or at anchorage is arranged with the fisheries inspectors, the port and the receiver, with weights and species recorded for the catch certificates.
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, by licensed launch, with immigration formalities completed ashore for the joining and leaving crew.
Yes. Reefer carriers calling Mombasa for transshipment or discharge are attended by the same desk.
Fishing calls at Port Victoria, Port Louis, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar are coordinated through our Africa agency line under one 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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