Vessel & Rig Agency
Ships agent · vessel agent · ships agency · vessel agency across Namibia, South Africa & Mozambique
Afrishore acts as appointed local representative for owners, managers and charterers of vessels, rigs and marine assets transiting territorial waters or working at anchorage. Full agency scope: port and customs clearance, berth scheduling and port-authority liaison, immigration and crew changes, husbandry and owners' protective agency, bunkering, dry docking and repairs, procurement, and full mobilisation and demobilisation. We agent rigs, drillships, semi-submersibles, OSVs, PSVs, AHTS, tankers and FPSOs across our licensed port network.
Vessel and rig agency in this region is unforgiving – tight berthing windows, complex immigration for international crews, customs and classification-society deadlines, weather that does not wait. Embedded teams permanently on-call across the Southern African coast mean the master, vessel and rig management and the operator deal with one agent rather than a chain of subcontractors.
On campaigns including the TotalEnergies Brulpadda discovery and the Deepsea Mira and Deepsea Bollsta drilling programmes, our rig agency ran alongside supply-base, integrated-logistics and crew operations from the same shore base. That integration is what keeps offshore schedules intact.
What we handle
- Port clearance & customs formalities
- Berth scheduling & port-authority liaison
- Immigration & crew-change compliance
- Dry docking & repairs coordination
- Bunkering arrangements
- Procurement & technical support network
- Husbandry & owner's representation
- Medivac & emergency coordination
- Off Port Limits (OPL) logistics
- Full mobilisation / demobilisation
Vessel & rig types
Other Afrishore capabilities
Vessel & Rig Agency runs alongside the other shore-side capabilities under a single point of accountability:
