Gateway coordination
For principals in Bujumbura and Gitega, the sea starts at Dar es Salaam or one of the other gateways. Maingate Shipping attends the vessel, clears the corridor paperwork and reports to the inland office as if it were standing on the quay.
An importer in Bujumbura and Gitega does not choose a ship; it chooses a corridor, and the ship follows. Burundi's gateways are Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, and Maingate Shipping attends the vessel at whichever one the cargo uses, on one instruction from the inland office.
Fuel, cement, food staples, fertilizer and vehicles come in; coffee, tea and hides go out. Cargo for Burundi clears at Dar es Salaam under the East African Community arrangements and moves under bond to Bujumbura.
The desk's note for Burundian principals: the lake leg from Kigoma adds a second vessel and a second set of documents, and the desk keeps the sea and lake files together.
Each gateway has its own desk with the port's facts. Dar es Salaam: the Central Corridor by road, and the Lake Tanganyika route from Kigoma to Bujumbura. Mombasa: the Northern Corridor through Uganda and Rwanda.
Where a cargo can use more than one, the desk prices both and says which it would choose and why.
Inbound, Burundi receives fuel, cement, food staples, fertilizer and vehicles. The vessel is attended at the gateway by Maingate's own staff at Mombasa or by our partner at the other ports under Maingate's instruction, the discharge is matched to the trucks or wagons, and the transit bond is lodged before the first tonne lands.
Bulk fertilizer and fuel programmes are the largest movements, and the desk coordinates bagging, tank space and haulage with the discharge so that the vessel is not stopped by the shore.
Burundi's exports are coffee, tea and hides. They arrive at the coast by rail or truck and load on vessels the desk nominates or attends, with the export documents cleared and the loading supervised.
Producers and marketing boards work with the desk on the shipping programme so that vessels arrive when the cargo does.
Cargo for Burundi clears at Dar es Salaam under the East African Community arrangements and moves under bond to Bujumbura. The desk prepares the declarations and bonds with the clearing agent, keeps the corridor documents with the cargo to the border, and reports each stage to the inland office.
The lake leg from Kigoma adds a second vessel and a second set of documents, and the desk keeps the sea and lake files together.
Through Dar es Salaam, Mombasa, each with its own corridor, and the desk coordinates the call at whichever one the cargo uses.
Yes. The desk prices the port call and the corridor for each option on current conditions.
Yes, with reporting to the agency's standard from discharge to the border.
Yes. The chartering desk fixes the tonnage and the agency desk attends the call, on one file.
Receipts behind every line, a record behind every stoppage, a desk behind every call.
The gateways for Burundi and the desks that move its cargo.
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