Regional desk
The Suez Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Red Sea put North Africa's ports on the routes every vessel between Asia and Europe uses. Maingate Shipping coordinates calls at Port Said, Ain Sokhna, Alexandria, Damietta, Tanger Med, Casablanca, Algiers and Radès through its Africa agency line, and links them to Port Sudan and Djibouti on the Red Sea route to East Africa.
For a principal whose vessel trades from the Gulf or Asia to the Mediterranean and then down the African coast, this is one desk from the canal to Maputo.
Port Said and East Port Said, Ain Sokhna, Alexandria and Damietta in Egypt; Tanger Med and Casablanca in Morocco; Algiers; Radès with La Goulette; Port Sudan and Djibouti on the Red Sea route. Each port has its own desk in this cluster.
Crew, spares, cash to master and provisions delivered by launch during Suez transit, bunker-only and crew change calls at Tanger Med and Port Said, and the grain berths at Alexandria and Damietta that receive some of the world's largest wheat cargoes.
A vessel bound south from Suez passes Port Sudan, Djibouti and the Somali coast before reaching Mombasa. The desk plans the sequence, the security reporting and the bunker and crew stops so that the voyage runs as one plan.
This desk is part of Maingate Shipping Limited, the Mombasa ship agency, crewing and brokerage house that has attended vessels at Kenyan ports since 2020 from its office at Express Building, Moi Avenue. Port agency at Mombasa and Lamu is handled by the company's own boarding officers; calls elsewhere in Africa run through the Maingate agency line under one DA format and one reporting style; Kenyan seafarers are recruited and managed from the same office; and the chartering desk fixes the tonnage that brings East Africa its wheat, fertilizer, clinker and fuel.
Principals deal with one desk for the whole voyage, and every service is agreed in writing before it is performed.
Yes. Crew, spares and cash are delivered by launch during the transit under the canal's rules, coordinated with the vessel's transit agent.
Calls at Libyan ports are considered case by case on current conditions.
As one itinerary: the desk plans bunker and crew stops at Djibouti or Port Sudan and the arrival at Mombasa together.
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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