Official visits
Djibouti hosts naval forces from several nations and receives warships and coast guard vessels on Red Sea and Gulf of Aden patrols, counter-piracy tasks and goodwill visits. Maingate Shipping coordinates husbanding services at Djibouti through its partner at the port, for navies and their contracting offices that want one desk for East Africa and the Red Sea.
The desk handles each visit with the discretion official calls require and links Djibouti with Mombasa and Port Sudan on the same patrol.
Diplomatic clearance runs through the embassy; the desk coordinates the port side once granted, arranges berth allocation with the port and the naval liaison, and manages protocol for arrival and official calls where the vessel's command requests it.
Fuel to specification with quality documentation, fresh water, provisions in quantity, garbage and waste, tugs and pilots, medical support and spares landed by air, on a single consolidated account.
Security perimeter coordination with the port and the host nation, gate control for the vessel's force protection, liberty transport and crew rest arrangements, and the Mombasa leg of the patrol planned by the same 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.
Clearance runs through the embassy and the ministry; the desk coordinates the port side once it is granted.
Yes, from suppliers who can meet the specification and provide the documentation.
Yes. Mombasa is attended by our own staff.
Receipts behind every line, a record behind every stoppage, a desk behind every call.
Related desks on the same instruction line.
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