Country desk
Egypt's ports sit at the hinge of the Suez Canal: Alexandria and Damietta on the Mediterranean, Port Said at the canal's northern entrance and Ain Sokhna on the Red Sea. Grain imports, transshipment and canal transit calls dominate.
A principal trading to Egypt is dealing with wheat, corn, steel, coal, containers and petrochemicals inbound; fruit, textiles, fertilizer and liquefied gas outbound, and with the fact that the canal itself carries the world's traffic, and the Delta and Cairo receive the cargo. Maingate Shipping's country desk turns that into one appointment: the right port for the cargo, the call attended, the corridor documents in order and the account closed.
The port authorities of Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said and the Red Sea, with the Suez Canal Authority governing transits; the desk files what each expects and reports to the principal in one style.
What every Egyptian call is planned around: crew changes, spares and cash to master are delivered by launch during canal transit, and Alexandria's grain berths are among the busiest in the world.
Each port has its own desk with the terminals, the cargo and the services a call needs.
Egypt's ports are Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said, Ain Sokhna, Adabiya, Safaga. Alexandria handles wheat, corn and other grains, containers, steel, coal and general cargo inbound, with fruit, textiles and chemicals outbound through the container terminals, the grain berths and silos, the general cargo quays and the bulk terminals at El Dekheila. Damietta handles containers, wheat, corn and general cargo inbound, with furniture, agricultural products and liquefied gas outbound through the container terminal, the grain and general cargo berths and the liquefied gas export terminal.
Calls at each port are attended by our partner agent there under Maingate's instruction, with the Mombasa desk issuing the proforma DA, tracking the call and closing the account.
The canal itself carries the world's traffic, and the Delta and Cairo receive the cargo. Corridor cargo means transit bonds, delivery orders, rail or road evacuation and receivers who are far from the quay. The desk coordinates the clearing agents and the transport so that discharge is not held by paperwork and the cargo's documents follow it inland.
Where a cargo is split between Egyptian ports or between Egypt and a neighbouring country, the sequence is planned as one voyage with one file.
Formalities in Egypt run through the bodies that govern the ports: the port authorities of Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said and the Red Sea, with the Suez Canal Authority governing transits. The desk knows their forms, their hours and their cut-offs, files ahead of ETA and keeps the vessel's documents ready for inspection.
The principal sees the result as a pre-arrival confirmation, daily reports and a departure report, not as a pile of forms.
Husbandry in Egypt is planned port by port: crew changes, spares and cash to master are delivered by launch during canal transit, and Alexandria's grain berths are among the busiest in the world. The desk chooses the port for the crew change, the stem and the spares with the itinerary in view and tells the principal at nomination.
Protecting agency for owners runs alongside the charterer's agent where the charter party gives the charterer the appointment.
Alexandria, Damietta, Port Said, Ain Sokhna, Adabiya, Safaga are covered with their own desks; other ports and anchorages are handled on request.
Our partner agent at each port, appointed and instructed by Maingate Shipping; the Mombasa desk coordinates and is responsible to the principal.
Yes. The Africa agency line handles the whole itinerary on one instruction with a DA per port.
Pre-arrival confirmation, daily reports, a departure report with the statement of facts and a final DA with receipts, in one style at every port.
The same working day, with a proforma DA and the checklist of documents the port and the receiver will want.
Receipts behind every line, a record behind every stoppage, a desk behind every call.
The Egypt desk connects to the port desks below and to the Africa agency line.
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