Liner representation
Container lines, feeder operators and ro-ro services calling Kenya need a local agent who runs the vessel operations, sells the space, issues the documents, controls the equipment and answers the customers. Maingate Shipping offers liner agency representation at Mombasa and Lamu for lines and operators who do not have their own office in Kenya, under a liner agency agreement that sets out the scope, the reporting and the commercial terms.
The desk's port agency experience at Mombasa's container terminals and the vehicle berths gives the line an operations team from the first call.
Berth applications and terminal liaison for each call, pre-arrival documentation, bay planning coordination with the terminal, stowage instructions, crew and husbandry matters, and the statement of facts and operations report for each voyage.
Bookings and space control, freight quotations under the line's tariff, bills of lading and manifests, customs and port documentation, delivery orders and release, and equipment control for the line's containers in Kenya including depot and repair coordination.
A named customer service contact for shippers and consignees, claims handling under the line's procedure, receivables collection where the agreement provides, and monthly reporting of volumes, revenue and outstanding items to the line.
This desk is part of Maingate Shipping Limited, the Mombasa ship agency, crewing and brokerage house that has attended vessels at Kenyan ports since 2020 from its office at Express Building, Moi Avenue. Port agency at Mombasa and Lamu is handled by the company's own boarding officers; calls elsewhere in Africa run through the Maingate agency line under one DA format and one reporting style; Kenyan seafarers are recruited and managed from the same office; and the chartering desk fixes the tonnage that brings East Africa its wheat, fertilizer, clinker and fuel.
Principals deal with one desk for the whole voyage, and every service is agreed in writing before it is performed.
Yes. Feeder and coastal operators are represented at both ports under one agreement.
Yes. Vehicle carrier calls, yard coordination and consignee release are handled by the same desk.
Calls at Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar are coordinated through our partners under the same reporting, and the line's Kenyan documentation is handled from Mombasa.
Nominate Maingate Shipping and the answer comes from Mombasa with a proforma DA attached.
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Maingate Shipping Limited · Express Building, Moi Avenue, Mombasa, Kenya · ops@maingateshipping.com · +254 784 622 091