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We are immensely pleased to introduce our Shipping Line, AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE -ASLINE and extend our invitation to your esteemed company into greater business partnership development and market exploration.
AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE  is a fully indigenous registered company in Kenya and Worldwide that started operations in 2005 in the Shipping Sector with very little resources and overtime but which has grown to become a trusted and reliable Shipping Line not only in Africa but now spreads through Middle East and neighboring states. It’s an African’s home grown, global Shipping line and logistics partner situated on the gateway of the Middle East, Dubai and within harbour limits ensuring a prompt and reliable service to and from Africa. 

We bring you a complete and comprehensive package of revolutionary services backed by a team of professionals well experienced in all avenues of international Shipping line industry including Ship Agency, Bunker, Ship Contracting and Chandler Services, Clearing and Freight forwarding for sea/air and land. We are a company that Knows Africa and has operations in many of those countries; we also act and are agents of various shipping lines, including our company based in Dubai, The African Shipping Lines Pvt. and Hyagreeva Lines of Chennai India among others. It is in that case, that we request you to also consider us your main shipping agents in Mombasa and Dar Es Salaam among other ports. Our operations have helped us open Africa with the Middle East and South East Asia business network.

MOMBASA PORT - KENYA, being Our head office is the biggest regional port in the Eastern Africa and which thus serves as our central nerve in those businesses. We are anticipating branch offices in all the Eastern Africa and the Red Sea Ports of Djibouti and Sudan, China and Japan. This is why we would want you in that business partnership and co-operation. We work towards becoming the provider of a global Shipping Line Services and related Services to many ports in East African and Red Sea ports and the world at large. 

We are dedicated to building the bridge across the great divide of developing states with world Markets and global trends.With our regional head office at MOMBASA- KENYA fully operational for services including Ship Agency, Bunker and Chandler, clearing and forwarding services plus Logistics and with agencies in more than ten countries, notably in the Eastern African region including KENYA, TANZANIA, UGANDA, RWANDA, BURUNDI, DRC (Congo), SOUTHERN SUDAN, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA, SOMALIA and as far as MOZAMBIQUE, ZAMBIA, we will surely open up more clients who will do business with you in the entire AFRICAN continent. It's our desire to open your company into the interiors of AFRICA, surely a developing the continent, on mutual co-operation.  
Thanks and hope we collaborate on this issue.

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MEMO TO TRADE : AFRICAN PORTS MOMBASA, DAR & DJIBOUTI

Please Visit AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE official Website: www.africanshippingline.com


ANNOUNCING EXPANSION OF AFRICAN SHIPPING PORTS (EASTERN AFRICA & THE RED SEA PORTS)

RO-RO (Car Carriers) /CONTAINERS/BREAK-BULK SERVICES TO AFRICAN PORTS.

ASLINE - AFRICA SHIPPING LINE would like to announce expansion to cover more African ports especially in the Red Sea sector and Eastern Africa.

ASLINE - AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE currently liaises with various Shipping Line agents & Freight Forwarders that deal in supply chain logistics and cargo distribution across UAE and the world therefore through this mutual co-operation, moves cargo with speed and efficiency across African Continent.

AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE now covers shipping services (RO-RO/CONTAINERS, BREAK-BULK and project cargo) mainly focused on cargo distribution between Dubai-UAE and Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Mozambique, Comoros ports in addition to The red sea sector of Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt and Somalia.

As a matter of fact, basically, Companies in African countries prefer trading with U.A.E market mainly because of the availability of a wide variety of their requirements and ready distribution of their goods.

ASLINE - AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE DUBAI therefore concentrates on speedy arrangement of your cargo movement to and from Dubai or Sharjah Ports.

 AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE has the capacity and expertise to move any kind of cargo between UAE ports to the Ports of Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Comoros, Nacala in Eastern African sector adjoining the Indian Ocean the Red Sea sector comprising of Port Djibouti serving Djibouti and Ethiopia, Port Assab for Eritrea&Ethiopia,Port Sudan; Swakin serve Sudan, Chad and interiors while Port Said/Port Suez serves Egypt and combine their activities with Aqaba Port of Jordan Port Berberra/Bossaso/Mogadishu serving areas around Horn of Africa.

Other ports are covered by AFRICAN SHIPPING LINE  in the process and they include, Mukalla Port, Aden and Jeddah of Saudi Arabia.

Shipping services to Africa from Middle East has never been easy and ASL-DUBAI services has made shipping to Africa easier.Please let us know if you have cargo for the same destinations by sending quotations located on the sidebar of this website,

Please feel free to contact African Shipping Lines - Dubai on the email: info@africanshippingline.com, or africanshippingdubai@gmail.com

KRA AVERTS CONGESTION AT KENYA'S MOMBASA PORT

The Kenyan Government has taken the decision to avert a congestion crisis at the port of Mombasa by allowing Vehicle Importers from Japan to freely collect their vehicles from the Mombasa port before obtaining the mandatory number plates from the Registrar of Motor Vehicles.

The vehicles have been piling for nearly a month because number plates, which are made by the Prisons department, have been scarce. The department has however, denied any problems with the output of number plates.

The vehicles which are cleared at the rate of 200 per day have piled up to 10,000 in all the Container Freight Stations (CFSs) used by the port, with 2,000 more cars expected to dock in next week.

On Sunday, the Kenya Revenue Authority said the ports authority was calling on importers to collect vehicles from the stations. They can then wait for the number plates which were likely to take sometime while keeping their vehicles outside the port.

KRA last year introduced a rule that vehicles should not leave the port until they are issued with number plates.

“We started allowing vehicles to leave the stations and wait for the plates. But the condition is that the owners must have paid all dues including the plates fees,” she said.

The shortage of number plates is causing concern among shippers and importers because a crisis is looming over storage space.

The recent warders’ strike made the situation worse because no production took place during the strike, and even after the strike, production of the plates has been slow. Now there are fears that if the congestion goes unchecked, vessels calling at Mombasa port with vehicles may impose punitive charges to recover losses over waiting period which is expected to increase due to lack of space in the CFSs.



Currently the CFSs mandated by KRA as custom bonded warehouses and contracted by Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to handle vehicles are saturated with cars.

A source at a freight station yesterday said if the problem is not addressed urgently, the situation might lead to congestion at the port because the freight terminals will lack space to store the vehicles.

“The situation is serious because soon we will run out of space, meaning that we shall not be able to take more from the port,” the source said.

Boss Freight Terminal said the terminal was currently holding 1,300 vehicles.“We are expecting another consignment of 2,000 cars and we do not know where we shall keep them,” he said. There are close to 10 CFSs that handle vehicles and most of them are full to capacity.

And now, clearing and forwarding agents want KRA to rescind the decision, saying it did not make sense to detain vehicles whereas all duties and taxes, including registration fees, had been paid in full.



Kenya International Freight & Warehousing Association Mombasa branch chairman Peter Otieno said once a vehicle had been cleared with all duties paid, including registration fees, it should immediately be released.

On Saturday, Mr Otieno said agents were losing millions of shillings by paying storage charges accruing as a result of vehicles overstaying at freight stations.

JAPAN GIVES US$241M FOR KENYA'S MOMBASA PORT EXPANSION

The Government of Japan has pledged Sh15 billion grant towards the development of the Mombasa Port.

The new Japanese envoy to Kenya, Mr Shigeo Iwatani, said on Wednesday that an exchange note to that effect would be signed between the two governments mid this month.

Iwatani said his Government is impressed by the economic development that Kenya has achieved and promised more donor funding to finance the country’s infrastructure.

"The Japanese Government is impressed by Kenya’s economic growth and development and is keen to assist the country further. We have a number of projects in the pipeline and will begin with the signing of the exchange note towards the development of the Mombasa Port," said Iwatani.

He was speaking in Nairobi during a meeting with Planning and National Development minister, Mr Henry Obwocha. Iwatani said discussions were ongoing with the Kenyan authorities on a five-year development plan.