Effortless disbursement accounts control for
Rio Tinto with DA-Desk
Streamline disbursement accounts, unlock potential
Effortless disbursement accounts control for
Discover how DA-Desk can simplify Rio Tinto’s marine operations
We can help Rio Tinto improve the accuracy and optimisation of disbursement accounts, enhance compliance in line with ethics and integrity needs, and free up time for operators by reducing the admin burden.
With an impressive track record in China and globally (including successes with Vale and similar clients), DA-Desk stands out as a trusted platform to navigate the complexities of marine operations.
Unlock your true potential with DA-Desk
From optimising cash flow and reducing FX costs to ensuring compliance and minimising financial risks, DA-Desk aligns seamlessly with Rio Tinto’s vision for operational excellence and sustainable growth. It’s a proven solution to streamline workflows, unlock potential and enhance compliance, while reducing admin overheads and freeing up time for operators.
Focus on what really matters
By automating disbursement account management, DA-Desk releases your operators from time-consuming admin tasks, allowing them to reclaim time for what really matters—vessel operations, strategic initiatives, transformation, personal development, and future optimisations.
See DA-Desk in action
Streamline and simplify the DA process, and increase productivity
Choose DA-Desk to simplify Rio Tinto’s marine operations, enhance productivity, and embark on a strategic partnership that fuels ongoing success.
Reclaim time for strategic work
DA-Desk streamlines and simplifies disbursement processes, minimising touchpoints and reducing the administrative burden through automated and exception-based approvals. It empowers teams to refocus on core vessel operations and strategic initiatives, freeing up their time for impactful work.
DA-Desk also minimises revenue leakage with comprehensive PDA/FDA screening, leveraging more than 2 million completed port calls as cost benchmarks, provides insights for the Operations to Post-fix handover, and ensures precise expense management.
Mitigate risk and non-compliance at every port call
DA-Desk provides comprehensive oversight, transparency across departments, and offers Rio Tinto an essential extra layer of auditing. Our team of over 60 compliance researchers, analysts, and sanctions specialists monitor global trading and regulatory developments around the clock, ensuring compliance and financial integrity.
DA-Desk helps you deal with trade and economic sanctions, bank account verification, payment approval, transaction monitoring, anti-money laundering, anti-corruption, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, IT systems, security, and privacy, and ISO & ISAE audits.
Significant savings for every port call
Strengthen FX spreads, and significantly reduce bank transaction charges, while optimising cash flow with precise PDA/FDA management.
By leveraging our handling of over $14 billion in port spend, we offer exclusive access to competitive FX rates via Citibank, reduced transaction costs, and optimal routing.
We’ve managed disbursement accounts of more than 1,400 China iron ore port calls annually and made significant savings on tonnage and rebate discrepancies detected in iron ore shipments.
DA-Desk: The benefits at a glance
Time-saving processes
Free your operators from protracted administration, giving them more time to focus on important issues.
Cost effective compliance
Extra layers of compliance, controls, confidentiality and information security to give you total visibility at no extra cost.
Increased savings
Prevent revenue leakage from your Disbursement Accounts with comprehensive screening, eliminate bank transactional charges and yield preferential FX rates across 130+ local currencies.
Integration and control
Improve compliance checks, financial management, and agent appointments, all through a user-friendly interface with greater compliance and control. Integrate your Voyage Management system, IMOS, to DA-Desk for a seamless & streamlined process.
We apply over 2,000 rules to every PDA and FDA, while our OCR technology ensures the accuracy and completeness of each invoice, mitigating risk and non-compliance at every port call.
A comprehensive guide on the DA-Desk process
- Get 4 ways to reduce your operational costs
- See the key compliance checks we do to reduce your risk
- Easily connect and share data in real-time with your VMS and accounting system
- Simplify your DA reporting
- Find out how we check 100% of your PDAs and FDAs – so you don’t have to
d’Amico Group work with DA-Desk for decades
Giuseppe Oliveri, Fleet Manager at d’Amico Group, discusses the last 17 years using DA-Desk
“I know that DA-Desk teams are specialised – so for d’Amico we have our own dedicated DA-Desk team working for us on DAs, reports, amongst others – which saves us a lot of money.”
Meet your Marcura team
Get started with DA-Desk
Our specialised team manages a structured 27-day onboarding process. We work with you to set up contracts, agencies, payment accounts, automation flows and training, so everything goes smoothly from day one. From the start, you’ll have access to 24/7 Customer Service live chat and a dedicated Key Account Manager.
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