Country desk
Abidjan is the largest port in francophone West Africa and San Pédro is the world's biggest cocoa export port. Between them they carry Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa, coffee, cashew, rubber and palm oil and the transit trade of Mali and Burkina Faso.
Ship agency in Ivory Coast from Maingate Shipping means one instruction for every Ivorian port, one proforma DA format, one reporting style and one desk that knows the vessel from her last call. The cargoes are cocoa, coffee, cashew, rubber, palm oil and bananas outbound; rice, wheat, clinker, fuel and containers inbound; the hinterland is wider than the country, since Mali and Burkina Faso through Abidjan.
Authorities: the autonomous ports of Abidjan and San Pédro with their terminal concessionaires. Formalities are filed by the desk at each port.
The operational fact the desk tells every principal at nomination: the Vridi canal transit at Abidjan and the cocoa crop calendar at both ports are the two things every call is planned around.
Each port has its own desk with the terminals, the cargo and the services a call needs.
Ivory Coast's ports are Abidjan, San Pédro. Abidjan handles cocoa, coffee, cashew, rubber, palm oil and bananas outbound, with rice, wheat, clinker and fuel inbound through the two container terminals, the general cargo and bulk berths, the refinery jetty, the fruit terminal and the fishing port. San Pédro handles cocoa beans and products, rubber and timber outbound, with clinker, fertilizer and general cargo inbound through the cocoa and general cargo berths and the expanded container 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.
Much of what lands in Ivory Coast is going somewhere else: Mali and Burkina Faso through Abidjan. The receiver's clearing agent, the transit bond, the delivery order and the truck or wagon are as much part of the call as the crane, and the desk keeps them moving with the discharge.
Documents follow the cargo inland; quantities are reconciled at the quay before the vessel sails.
The autonomous ports of Abidjan and San Pédro with their terminal concessionaires. Pre-arrival notices, customs and immigration formalities, health clearance and port documentation are filed by the desk at each port in the form the authority expects.
Principals receive a pre-arrival confirmation, daily reports during the call and a departure report with the statement of facts.
The Vridi canal transit at Abidjan and the cocoa crop calendar at both ports are the two things every call is planned around. Crew changes, bunkers, spares, cash to master and medical cases are handled at the port that suits the itinerary, and the desk tells the principal at nomination which port that is.
Owners whose charterers appoint the cargo agent place these matters with the desk as protecting agent.
Abidjan, San Pédro 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.
Nominate Maingate Shipping and the answer comes from Mombasa with a proforma DA attached.
The Ivory Coast desk connects to the port desks below and to the Africa agency line.
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