Offshore calls
The gas developments on the Rovuma basin bring supply vessels, crew boats, survey ships, pipelay and construction vessels to Pemba and the Afungi site, on a rhythm set by the projects rather than by cargo. Maingate Shipping coordinates offshore vessel agency at Pemba through its partner at the port, with the Mombasa desk planning crew rotations and equipment movements across the region.
Security conditions in Cabo Delgado and the projects' own procedures govern every movement, and the desk plans on current information for each call.
Standing arrangements with the port for vessels that call repeatedly, coordination with the project's supply base for berth slots, fuel, water and cargo, and the port formalities kept current so that each call is a routine rather than a new application.
Offshore crews rotate through Pemba Airport in numbers; immigration pre-clearance, transfers, hotel blocks and crew boat schedules are planned with the operator's crew coordinator. Equipment enters under temporary import for the project and is re-exported at the end of the campaign, with the customs file kept by the desk.
Vessels move between Pemba, Mtwara, Dar es Salaam and Mombasa on the same projects; the desk plans the itinerary and the crew changes across those ports on one instruction.
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, through the port and the project's supply base procedures, with the desk coordinating the port side.
Through Pemba Airport with connections via Maputo and Nairobi, pre-cleared with immigration and planned with the operator.
Yes. Mtwara, Dar es Salaam and Mombasa are coordinated on the same instruction.
Nominate Maingate Shipping and the answer comes from Mombasa with a proforma DA attached.
Related desks on the same instruction line.
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