Regional desk
Southern Africa's ports are the best equipped on the continent and the busiest: Durban for containers and general cargo, Richards Bay for coal and bulk exports, Cape Town for the Cape route, fishing and repairs, Algoa Bay for manganese, vehicles and containers, Walvis Bay for the Atlantic corridors and offshore support, and the Mozambican corridor ports for the interior's exports.
Maingate Shipping coordinates calls at these ports through its Africa agency line for principals who want one desk for a vessel's whole African itinerary, or who trade the region from East Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Durban, Richards Bay, Cape Town and Gqeberha in South Africa; Walvis Bay in Namibia; Maputo, Beira and Nacala in Mozambique. Each port has its own desk in this cluster describing the terminals, the cargoes and the services a call needs.
A bulk carrier loading coal at Richards Bay and discharging at Mombasa, a tanker calling Durban for bunkers on the way to the Gulf, a reefer loading citrus at Gqeberha and Cape Town, a supply vessel moving between Walvis Bay and Mozambique: itineraries cross the region, and one desk keeps the reporting, the DAs and the crew planning consistent.
South African ports offer drydocking and repair capacity that East African ports do not, and vessels rounding the Cape call for bunkers, crew and stores. The desk coordinates these calls with the local partner and the owner's technical department.
Maingate Shipping Limited is a ship agency, crew management and ship brokerage company based at Express Building on Moi Avenue in Mombasa, Kenya, serving vessels at Kenyan ports since 2020 and coordinating port calls across Africa through its agency line. The company attends bulk carriers, tankers, container ships, car carriers, cruise ships, fishing, offshore and naval vessels at Mombasa and Lamu, places Kenyan seafarers with owners worldwide, and fixes dry bulk, tanker and project tonnage for East African cargoes.
One instruction to the desk covers the port call, the crew, the fuel and the account, and the same office answers the master and the principal at any hour.
Calls in Southern Africa are attended by our sub-agency partners under Maingate's instruction, with the coordination and reporting handled from Mombasa.
We coordinate the yard booking, the port call and the crew arrangements with the owner's technical team and the local partner.
Yes. Bunker, crew and stores calls are routine at Cape Town, Durban and Walvis Bay.
One instruction, one account, one contact for the master and one for the principal.
Related desks on the same instruction line.
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