Regional desk
East Africa's coast runs from Port Sudan to Maputo, with corridor ports serving a dozen landlocked countries. Maingate Shipping coordinates ship agency along this coast from Mombasa: our own desk attends Kenyan ports, and calls at Dar es Salaam, Djibouti, Beira, Maputo, Nacala, Berbera, Mogadishu and Port Sudan run through our Africa agency line with the same reporting and the same DA format.
A principal with a vessel trading the coast sends one instruction and deals with one desk, whichever port the vessel calls.
Mombasa and Lamu in Kenya; Dar es Salaam, Tanga, Zanzibar and Mtwara in Tanzania; Maputo, Beira and Nacala in Mozambique; Djibouti; Berbera and Mogadishu; Port Sudan. Each has a desk of its own in this cluster with the port's facts, its cargo and the services a call needs.
A proforma DA in one format at every port, a boarding officer at every call, daily reports in one style, statements of facts prepared to one standard for laytime, crew changes planned across the itinerary rather than port by port, and a final account per port from one desk.
Fertilizer split between Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, wheat for Uganda and Rwanda, clinker for the coast's cement works, coal and minerals out of Mtwara, Nacala and Beira, and fuel for Ethiopia through Djibouti: the desk coordinates the sequence of ports and the documentation that follows the cargo inland.
Maingate Shipping Limited, Mombasa: ship agents at Kenyan ports since 2020, crew managers and recruiters of Kenyan seafarers, ship brokers for the East African trades, and the coordinating desk for port calls across Africa. The office at Express Building on Moi Avenue is a short drive from Kilindini Harbour and Moi International Airport, which is why crew, spares and cash reach vessels at Mombasa without a wasted hour.
The company works for owners, charterers, managers, traders, lines, clubs and fleets, and puts its terms, its DAs and its reports in writing.
Mombasa and Lamu. Other ports are attended by our sub-agency partners under Maingate's instruction and reporting.
Yes. Multi-port appointments are common on the coast, with a separate DA per port on one account.
Yes. Bunker, crew and stores calls at Djibouti are coordinated for vessels transiting Bab-el-Mandeb.
Nominate Maingate Shipping and the answer comes from Mombasa with a proforma DA attached.
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