Project desk
Power plants, railways, ports, pipelines, cement works and mines across East Africa arrive as project cargo: transformers, turbines, boilers, cranes, locomotives and modules that need a multipurpose or heavy lift vessel and a plan for every lift. Maingate Shipping fixes that tonnage from Mombasa and stays with the cargo from loading port to the quay.
The desk has fixed heavy lift and multipurpose vessels for energy, construction and humanitarian projects, and the same office plans the port operation: berth suitability, crane capacity, lashing, stowage and the road move from the quay.
Each piece is listed with dimensions, weight, lifting points and centre of gravity. The desk sources vessels whose cranes, deck strength and hatch openings suit the cargo, compares offers on freight and schedule, and checks the discharge port can take the vessel and the lift.
Project cargoes are fixed on voyage charter or liner terms with riders for lifting, lashing, securing, weather and delays. The desk drafts the terms with the charterer's forwarder or EPC contractor so that responsibility for each lift is clear before the ship sails.
Lifting plans and safety procedures for the discharge, coordination with the port's heavy lift equipment where the ship's gear is not used, survey attendance, and the handover to the road haulier with the permits obtained. Our agency desk at Mombasa handles the call itself.
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.
Pieces in the hundreds of tonnes have been discharged at Mombasa using heavy lift vessels' own gear. The desk confirms feasibility for any piece against the vessel's cranes and the berth.
Yes. Part-cargo bookings on multipurpose liner services or on vessels already fixed for the region are often the economical answer for one or two pieces.
We arrange the road haulier, escorts and permits from the quay to the site with partners who move abnormal loads in the region.
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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Maingate Shipping Limited · Express Building, Moi Avenue, Mombasa, Kenya · ops@maingateshipping.com · +254 784 622 091