Country desk
Dakar is the westernmost port in Africa and a habitual stop on the Atlantic routes for bunkers, repairs and crew changes, as well as the sea gateway for Senegal and Mali.
Ship agency in Senegal from Maingate Shipping means one instruction for every Senegalese port, one proforma DA format, one reporting style and one desk that knows the vessel from her last call. The cargoes are phosphates, groundnut products and fish outbound; wheat, rice, fuel, clinker and containers inbound; the hinterland is wider than the country, since Mali through the Dakar corridor.
Authorities: the autonomous port of Dakar and the container terminal concessionaire. Formalities are filed by the desk at each port.
The operational fact the desk tells every principal at nomination: the new deep-water port south of Dakar will shift traffic over the coming years, and the airport is about an hour from the berths.
Each port has its own desk with the terminals, the cargo and the services a call needs.
Senegal's ports are Dakar. Dakar handles containers, wheat, rice, fuel and clinker inbound, with phosphates, groundnut products and fish outbound through the container terminal, the general cargo and bulk berths, the refinery jetty, the fishing harbour and the ship repair yard.
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.
Mali through the Dakar corridor. 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 Senegalese ports or between Senegal and a neighbouring country, the sequence is planned as one voyage with one file.
Formalities in Senegal run through the bodies that govern the ports: the autonomous port of Dakar and the container terminal concessionaire. 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 Senegal is planned port by port: the new deep-water port south of Dakar will shift traffic over the coming years, and the airport is about an hour from the berths. 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.
The desk advises from the cargo, the receiver's location and the port's current draft and berth position; the port desks in this cluster set out the facts for each.
Our partner agent at each port, appointed and instructed by Maingate Shipping; the Mombasa desk coordinates and is responsible to the principal.
Transit bonds, delivery orders and evacuation are coordinated with the receiver's clearing agent so that discharge is not held and the documents follow the cargo inland.
Yes, at the ports where each is available; the port desks state the position for crew changes and bunkers.
An agency fee per call agreed in the proforma DA, with port and third-party charges at cost and receipts attached.
Receipts behind every line, a record behind every stoppage, a desk behind every call.
The Senegal desk connects to the port desks below and to the Africa agency line.
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