Trade lane
The Arabian Gulf is East Africa's nearest industrial supplier: petroleum products, urea and other fertilizers, clinker, cement, steel and consumer goods sail from Jebel Ali, Dammam, Sohar, Salalah and the Iranian ports to Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Djibouti in a matter of days. Maingate Shipping's desk in Mombasa serves this lane on both sides of the voyage: chartering the tonnage for Gulf shippers and East African importers, and acting as agent when the vessel arrives.
A Gulf trader who fixes a cargo and appoints the discharge agent in one message deals with one desk from the loadport laycan to the final DA.
Clean petroleum products into Kipevu and Kurasini, urea and NPK in bulk for bagging at Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, clinker for the coast's cement works, steel and bagged cement, and containers on the feeder services that connect Jebel Ali with the East African ports.
Handysize and supramax tonnage for the bulk parcels, product tankers screened for the East African terminals, and the laytime terms drafted with the discharge port's reality in mind. The desk quotes the fixture with the discharge agency included.
Port agency at Mombasa and Lamu by our own staff, and at Dar es Salaam, Djibouti and the Mozambican ports through the Africa agency line, with the receiver's readiness checked before the vessel sails from the Gulf.
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.
Yes. The chartering desk and the agency desk are in the same office and the fixture is quoted with the discharge agency included.
Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Djibouti take most of it, with Tanga, Mtwara and the Mozambican ports for specific cargoes.
Yes. Backhaul cargoes are fixed and the loading call attended by the same desk.
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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