Regional desk
From Nouakchott to Luanda, West and Central Africa's ports handle the continent's largest import markets, its cocoa, oil, timber and mineral exports and its most demanding operating conditions. Maingate Shipping coordinates calls at these ports through its Africa agency line, so that a principal whose vessel trades from Asia or the Gulf to West Africa, or around the continent, deals with one desk.
Security at anchorage, gate congestion, tidal river ports and documentary regimes that differ by country are the realities of the region; the desk's partners at each port know them and our reporting makes them visible to the principal.
Lagos, Lekki, Onne and Port Harcourt in Nigeria; Cotonou; Lomé; Tema and Takoradi; Abidjan and San Pédro; Monrovia; Freetown; Conakry; Dakar; Banjul; Nouakchott; Douala and Kribi; Owendo; Pointe-Noire; Matadi; Luanda and Lobito. Each port has its own desk in this cluster.
Proforma DAs in one format across countries with different tariffs and currencies, reports in one style whether the call is at Lagos or Lomé, crew changes planned for the itinerary, and a single point of contact for the master and the principal in a region where phone numbers change and offices close for holidays that differ by country.
Lomé, Tema, Dakar and Walvis Bay serve vessels on the Atlantic routes for bunkers, crew and stores, and the desk coordinates these calls for vessels that do not load cargo in the region.
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.
Through sub-agency partners at each port working under Maingate's instruction, with coordination, reporting and settlement from Mombasa.
Yes. Multi-port itineraries are planned as one appointment with a DA per port.
Our partners work in the local language and the desk reports to the principal in English.
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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