The maritime industry faces some tough anti-financial crime compliance challenges, including the need to keep up-to-date with potentially thousands of agents around the world, having multiple voyage-associated parties across various jurisdictions and facing the opaque ownership of ships and assets.

Captain Igor Petrenko from EXMAR talks to us about his experience with the MarTrust E-Wallet, which enables him to exchange currencies at a more competitive rate when compared to his bank. In the interview, Captain Petrenko said, “I have been using it for two months already. I installed the app and it has been very user friendly - I like using it.

Marcura is pleased to share our United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) Communication on Progress Report for 2021-2022. This year marks 10 years since we first adopted the UNGC principles and you can read the report here.

In our recent anti-financial crime (AFC) survey with Operations Directors and senior management, 72% found it difficult to do all of the required counterparty, KYC and other AFC checks as part of processing disbursement accounts (DAs). Download your copy of the results here.

We surveyed Operations Directors from across the maritime industry and found that most ranked anti-financial crime (AFC) compliance as a top concern. Download DA-Desk's latest eBook to find out what Operations Directors need to know about anti-financial crime compliance and what you can do to reduce AFC compliance risks.

Congratulations to MOL Drybulk Ltd. for creating the 2 millionth port call with DA-Desk! A huge thank you to all of our customers for helping us achieve this milestone.

Janani Yagnamurthy, Group Analytics Manager for Marcura recently undertook the Professional Qualifying Examinations (PQE) run by the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) and was named a Middle East branch topper in the Port and Terminal Management module! We caught up with Janani as she reflected on her experience of the course, her incredible achievement, and how it’s helped our customers and teams.

DA-Desk is celebrating 20 years since Seatrade created the first port call! As Walter Wildöer, MD of Seatrade Chartering, explained to us: “Before we started using DA-Desk, our system was piles of paper with yellow sticky notes. Now we have reduced our paperwork by about 95%.”