Vessel & Rig Agent – Port of Mossel Bay
Afrishore's founding base & head office – operated the Brulpadda & Luiperd supply base
Afrishore was founded in Mossel Bay and holds its own port agency licence here, with its head office at 58 Bland Street. Mossel Bay hosted the shore base for South Africa's most significant offshore gas play to date, Block 11B/12B (Brulpadda and Luiperd), and Afrishore acts as full vessel and rig agent here for rigs, drillships, OSVs, PSVs, AHTS and tankers, on the owners and charterers side.
Mossel Bay agency means running an offshore supply base to the rhythm of a deep-water drilling campaign: port clearance and port-authority liaison, immigration and crew changes, husbandry, rigging and project cargo, bunkering and full mobilisation/demobilisation with zero margin for error 175 km offshore.
From Mossel Bay Afrishore operated the supply base and rig agency for the TotalEnergies Brulpadda discovery and Luiperd campaigns and the earlier Eirik Raude drilling campaign, closing out cleanly through Cape Town. It is where Afrishore's integration-as-design model was proven and is applied to anything from tanker calls, transit stops, medivacs and project scopes.
What we handle at Mossel Bay
- Port clearance & customs formalities
- Berth scheduling & port-authority liaison
- Immigration & crew-change compliance
- Offshore supply base operations
- Rigging, cranage & project cargo
- Bunkering & husbandry
- Procurement & technical support
- Off Port Limits (OPL) logistics
- Mobilisation / demobilisation
Vessel & rig types
Vessel & rig agency at other ports
Afrishore agents vessels and rigs at every licensed port in our Southern African network – Mossel Bay is one of 6:
Beyond agency at Mossel Bay
Vessel and rig agency is the focus here, but Afrishore runs these from Mossel Bay too, under the same single point of accountability:
