Post-fixture desk
The charter party fixes the freight; the laytime account decides whether the voyage made money. Maingate Shipping's post-fixture desk in Mombasa prepares and checks laytime calculations for owners and charterers, using the statements of facts our own agency staff record at the berth or the statements supplied by the agent at other ports.
The desk also reviews demurrage claims received, checks them against the charter party and the port's record, and prepares the response with the supporting documents.
Notice of readiness tendered at the right place and time, in the form the charter party requires, and a statement of facts that records every event that affects laytime: arrival, anchoring, pilot boarding, berthing, commencement, stoppages with reasons, weather, shifting and completion. The desk drafts the notice and the statement so that both sides can rely on them.
Laytime commencement, exceptions, weather working days, shifting time, stoppages for the charterer's account and the owner's account, and the running of demurrage once laytime expires. Calculations are prepared on the charter party's terms and presented with the timeline so that the other side can follow every line.
Demurrage and despatch claims are presented with the notice, the statement, the time sheet and the charter party clauses relied on. Claims received are checked the same way, and the desk proposes the response, whether that is payment, a counter-calculation or a query.
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. Send the charter party, the statement of facts and the claim, and the desk reviews the calculation and the supporting record.
The statement of facts is signed at completion at ports where we are the agent, and the laytime calculation follows once the charter party terms have been applied to it.
The desk tracks the charter party's time bar for presenting claims and documents and warns the client well before it runs.
One instruction, one account, one contact for the master and one for the principal.
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