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Fishing Vessel Agency at Port Victoria: Purse Seiners, Longliners and Reefers

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Fishing calls

Fishing Vessel Agency at Port Victoria: Purse Seiners, Longliners and Reefers

Port Victoria is the centre of the western Indian Ocean tuna fishery: purse seiners land and transship catch, the cannery takes fish direct, longliners rotate crews, and reefer carriers load for Asia and Europe. Maingate Shipping coordinates fishing vessel agency at Port Victoria through its partner at the port, and plans the fleet's Mombasa and Port Louis calls from the same desk.

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Vessel at berth in Mombasa
DeskAfrica agency line, Mombasa
AttendancePartner agent under Maingate's instruction
FormatOne DA, one reporting style
Contactops@maingateshipping.com

Fishing calls are measured in days lost from the grounds, and the desk arranges the services so that they run concurrently rather than in sequence.

What the desk handles for these calls

  • Fishing authority formalities
  • Port inspections and catch documentation
  • Transshipment coordination
  • Reefer carrier agency
  • Crew changes for large crews
  • Provisions, ice and bait
  • Net and gear repairs
  • Workshop repairs
  • Fuel stems
  • Mombasa and Port Louis coordinated

Licensing, inspection and transshipment

Seychelles fishing authority formalities, port inspections and catch documentation for the regional fisheries body, and transshipment to reefer carriers in port or at anchorage with weights and species recorded for the catch certificates.

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Crew, provisions and repairs

Crew changes for large multinational crews through Seychelles International Airport, provisions, ice and bait, net and gear repairs in the fishing port, and workshop repairs arranged with the yard.

Ship's cranes and trucks working at the berth

Fuel and the fleet's other ports

Fuel stemmed through the island's supplier, reefer carrier agency for catch collections, and the fleet's calls at Mombasa, Port Louis and Dar es Salaam coordinated on the same instruction.

Container terminal from above

About the desk

Maingate Shipping Limited is a ship agency, crew management and ship brokerage company based at Express Building on Moi Avenue in Mombasa, Kenya, serving vessels at Kenyan ports since 2020 and coordinating port calls across Africa through its agency line. The company attends bulk carriers, tankers, container ships, car carriers, cruise ships, fishing, offshore and naval vessels at Mombasa and Lamu, places Kenyan seafarers with owners worldwide, and fixes dry bulk, tanker and project tonnage for East African cargoes.

One instruction to the desk covers the port call, the crew, the fuel and the account, and the same office answers the master and the principal at any hour.

Mombasa waterfront

Who instructs this desk

Operators of this vessel typeCalls planned on the operator's own rhythm.
Owners and managersHusbandry, crew and the owner's account.
CharterersTerminal and cargo coordination.
Crewing agenciesRotations in numbers.
Insurers and correspondentsAttendance and reporting.
Fleets on rotationOne desk across the region's ports.

How an instruction runs

  1. Send the nominationVessel, ETA, cargo or purpose, principal and the services needed, to the desk by email.
  2. Approve the proforma DAThe desk replies with the itemised estimate and the pre-arrival checklist; the principal approves and remits the advance.
  3. The call runsPre-arrival notices, berth and pilot, boarding officer, daily reports, statement of facts.
  4. The account closesFinal DA with receipts, reconciled against the advance, within the agreed period.
Agreed in writing firstScope, fee and reporting confirmed by email before the vessel arrives, so nothing is assumed.
Daily reports that say what happenedTimes, quantities, stoppages and reasons, sent while the call is running rather than after.
Statement of facts to a laytime standardRecorded so that the owner's and the charterer's calculators can rely on it.
Final account within the agreed daysReconciled against the proforma and the advance, with the balance shown plainly.

Questions we are asked about this

Can catch be transshipped at anchorage?

Yes, with the fisheries inspectors attending and the port's permission for the operation.

How are crew changes handled for seiners?

Through Seychelles International Airport, with immigration pre-clearance for the crew list and transfers to the fishing port.

Do you handle the fleet's Mombasa calls too?

Yes. The Mombasa desk attends those calls itself.

Somewhere on the African Coast Tonight, a Vessel Is Waiting for an Agent Who Answers.

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Other desks that belong with this one

Related desks on the same instruction line.

Port Victoria deskOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Fishing calls at MombasaOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Fishing vessel manningOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Africa agency lineOne desk for every African port call.Open the desk →

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