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Crew payroll made easy

  • Crew payroll
  • Supplier payments
  • Cash to Master
  • Crew E-Wallet
  • A solution built for manning and finance directors and their teams
  • Saves time, frees up cash flow
  • For your crews, it’s cheaper than banks and exchange houses, more secure and faster

Marcura and our customers

1,000+

Customers

60-strong

Compliance team

$12bn

Payments made per year

1000+

Global team members

2001

Established

REPORT

Navigating new financial seas

How to deploy digital solutions to maximise profit and reduce risk

Shipping companies are increasingly turning to digital solutions to optimise different aspects of a voyage and CFOs have become more involved in making decisions to support digital transformation.

The value of these solutions might be clear to one working in the operational department, but for the finance team, the benefits may be less clear-cut.

Our report showcases how digitalising different aspects of a voyage can generate substantial financial gains, helping financial leaders steer their way through the complex maritime digital solutions landscape.

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8 maritime solutions including…

MARTRUST

Crew payments made easy

Whether it’s paying your crew, suppliers or Masters, MarTrust can (almost certainly) improve your current situation.

A “built-specifically-for-maritime” solution that will:

  • reduce your FX and transaction fees
  • significantly enhance your sanctions and AFC compliance
  • be of real benefit for your crews.

We’re 100% maritime and we’d really appreciate the opportunity to discuss with you how we can help.

Quick intro to the E-Wallet

In 2 minutes, find out how you can:

  • Save time and money
  • Reduce cash flow
  • Make processing significantly easier
  • Deliver many benefits for your crew
MarTrust brochure

Read our guide – how shipping companies can reduce Cash to Master and improve the payroll process

What you’ll find inside:

  • How our payment solution enables Captains, crew and onshore teams to manage pay, bonuses and advances with ease – and reduce cash on board
  • See screenshots of our solution

DA-DESK

Too much paper flying around? Not sure you’re checking every DA?

We can help

Operations directors and their teams can automate every step of the disbursement accounting process and make significant savings on your international payments.

Remove paperwork, save time and enhance your compliance, reconciliation and security.

Free up time for your teams to spend on value-add activities.

A tried and tested solution (DA-Desk launched in 2001) and used today by over 350 of the world’s leading shipping companies.

We’d love to give you a free demo so please get in touch.

Watch the DA-Desk demo video

It’s a detailed demo of DA-Desk

Watch a video tour of all the features of DA-Desk, including:

  • Agent appointment – how quick and simple it is to appoint an agent
  • PDA and FDA approval – how easy it is to review line-item costs and compare PDAs
  • The screening, validation and checking of PDAs and FDAs
  • Reporting
  • The enhanced compliance checks built into payments
  • Managed vessel tracking and Port Document Management System

Walter from Seatrade: “We moved from piles of paper to DA-Desk”

Clipper Bulk has been using DA-Desk since 2006 and added PortPayables, Dashboards, and KPIs over the years, which have turned the use of DA-Desk into a streamlined process throughout the organisation, with cash flow optimisation, easier closing, and reconciliation of voyages and less paperwork.”

Erik B Terkildsen
Head of Operations

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“Marcura is the market leader in disbursement accounts and other platforms that come along with the port call process.

Marcura can manage a high volume of port calls – and this was the main factor to come over to Marcura.

Partnering with Marcura helps Eagle to perform better, to process accounts quicker and leverages on data and resources Marcura has all in one platform.”

Marc Radulovic
Senior Operations Manager

Marcura Testimonial

“DA-Desk is always up-to-date with global port tariffs and with their huge database they also know which invoices are true and what can be challenged.


We see a clear difference in the quality and efficiency we can achieve and now just one person is able to manage the DAs of the entire company.”

Manish Jain
Chief Operating Officer

PORTLOG

Introducing PortLog Pro – your latest PortLog solution upgrade

How are you estimating unpaid time? Are you relying on tacit knowledge alone?

Using the world’s largest SOF + FDA database + CP terms, PortLog Pro simulates laytime impact and accurately estimates demurrage/despatch and unpaid time.

Generate data-driven voyage estimates, evaluate potential fixtures and make more profitable freight trading decisions.

All this in a few simple clicks as we’re integrated with your Veson IMOS Platform.

CLAIMSHUB.AI

The new digital solution for laytime claims processing

  • Digitalise and standardise your laytime claims process
  • Improve claim accuracy and reduce costly errors
  • Faster cash conversion of your claims

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Streamlining the processes of the shipping industry and driving greater efficiency, compliance and security

If you’re in one of these teams, we can help!

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Latest news

Pacific Basin partners with Marcura for its digitalisation journey

Marcura has long been a strategic partner for ship owners and operators. The journey with Pacific Basin started almost 20 years ago while it was accelerating its digitalisation plans to streamline and optimise processes and data across the organisation. Marcura speaks to Kristian Helt, Director (Chartering) of Pacific Basin.

Navigating through the darkness: tech’s role in sanctions compliance

International sanctions are rapidly evolving due to shifting geopolitical tensions, making compliance more complex. Manni Sasani, Marcura’s Commercial Manager for Compliance urges ship owners and operators to actively work with trusted tech partners to assess sanctions risks and ensure compliance, avoiding severe legal, reputational and financial consequences.

Data’s vital role in maritime business resilience

Ship owners and operators must maintain business continuity amid multiple global supply chain challenges, including geopolitical conflict and extreme weather. Leaders should reap the business insights of harmonised data and AI that will help minimise risks we can control and boost efficiency and resilience amid a global supply chain in flux.

Marcura Group announces strategic leadership transition

Marcura is pleased to announce the successful completion of a significant leadership handover. Jens Lorens Poulsen has moved from his position as Group CEO to assume the role of Chair of the Board. Henrik Hyldahn, previously the CEO of ShipServ, has transitioned to the position of Group CEO.

Harnessing data to enhance maritime operations: the critical role of pricing risk

In the dynamic world of commercial shipping, understanding risk is crucial for strategic decision-making, especially in relation to optimising freight pricing. The use of tools like PortLog has become essential for ship owners and operators looking to reduce the discrepancy between the estimated versus the actual P&L of a voyage.

This necessity was emphasised during the recent agri-commodities session at Geneva Dry 2024, where industry leaders from Pacific Basin and Norden discussed the profound impact of these technologies on maritime logistics.

[WEBINAR] Optimising freight pricing with PortLog

Are you at risk of mispricing freight as a result of inaccurate voyage estimates?

Watch PortLog’s webinar on optimising freight pricing to discover how to leverage the 38.2m digitised port events in PortLog to improve the accuracy of your voyage estimates, maximise opportunities and better manage risk.

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