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Fishing Vessel Agency at Walvis Bay: Trawlers, Freezer Vessels and Reefers

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Fishing calls

Fishing Vessel Agency at Walvis Bay: Trawlers, Freezer Vessels and Reefers

Walvis Bay is Namibia's fishing capital, home port to the hake trawlers and freezer vessels that supply the processing plants on the waterfront and the horse mackerel fleet that lands and transships to reefer carriers. Maingate Shipping coordinates fishing vessel agency at Walvis Bay through its partner at the port.

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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

The port also serves foreign fleets on the Atlantic for crew changes, repairs and bunkers, and the desk handles those calls with the same file.

What the desk handles for these calls

  • Fisheries formalities
  • Landing and discharge coordination
  • Transshipment to reefers
  • Catch documentation
  • Crew changes via Walvis Bay Airport
  • Provisions and ice
  • Net and gear work
  • Syncrolift and workshop repairs
  • Bunker stems
  • Foreign fleet calls on passage

Licensing and landings

Fisheries formalities and inspections, landing and discharge coordination with the processing plants, and transshipment to reefer carriers with the catch documentation the fleet's flag and the buyers require.

Discharge by ship's cranes at Mombasa

Crew, repairs and supplies

Crew changes through Walvis Bay Airport with connections via Windhoek, provisions and ice, net and gear work, and repairs at the port's syncrolift and workshops.

Shipping and logistics services

Bunkers and the Atlantic fleets

Bunkers stemmed at Walvis Bay, an established Atlantic bunkering port, and foreign fishing vessels on passage handled for fuel, crew and repairs without landing catch.

Container ship from above

The company behind this desk

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.

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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.

From instruction to account

  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.
Nomination answered promptlyWith a proforma DA and a list of what the desk needs to prepare the call.
Suppliers named in the quotationSo the principal can compare and approve before the order is placed.
Disputes recorded at the timeStoppages, damage and shortages noted with the master while the facts are fresh.
ConfidentialityThe principal's business at the port stays between the principal, the master and the desk.

Questions we are asked about this

Can foreign fishing vessels call Walvis Bay for repairs and crew?

Yes. Calls for fuel, crew and repairs without landing catch are routine.

Is there drydocking for fishing vessels?

The port's syncrolift and workshops handle fishing vessel repairs.

Do you handle Lüderitz fishing calls too?

Yes, on the same instruction.

A Port Call Is a Hundred Small Decisions. Make Them With One Desk.

One instruction, one account, one contact for the master and one for the principal.

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Other desks that belong with this one

Related desks on the same instruction line.

Walvis Bay port deskOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Offshore calls at Walvis BayOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Namibia deskOpen the desk for the detail.Open the desk →Africa agency lineOne desk for every African port call.Open the desk →

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