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Brochures and customer case studies

Brochure

How we can make your life simpler

What you’ll find inside:

  • The 4 ways to reduce your operational costs
  • The key compliance checks we do to reduce your compliance risk
  • Easily connect and share data in real-time with your VMS and accounting system
  • Simplify your DA reporting
  • We check 100% of your PDAs and FDAs – so you don’t have to.
DA Desk

Case study

Pacific Basin partners with Marcura for its digitalisation journey

With a fleet of over 280 dry bulk ships, Pacific Basin needed to streamline and optimise its processes and data across the organisation.

In this case study, Kristian Helt, Director, Chartering at Pacific Basin, discusses how this longstanding partnership enabled them to navigate operational complexities and co-create tailored digital solutions.

Brochure

The customer view – in their own words

What you’ll find inside:

  • Our customer thoughts
  • Why our customers choose us
  • The four benefits of DA-Desk.

Case study

Giuseppe Oliveri, Fleet Manager at d’Amico Group, chats to us about the last 17 years using DA-Desk

He chats about the savings and efficiencies he’s seen with the reporting, preferential supplier agreements, checking of applicable discounts, and DA checks.

Giuseppe explains how DA-Desk helps him every day, “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.”

Case study

Ardmore’s Robert Gaina talks about DA-Desks efficiency and savings, safety checks, compliance, and VMS integration

Robert is the Director of Commercial Operations at Ardmore Shipping and has been a DA-Desk customer for the last five years.

Robert: “Our dealings with DA-Desk are a pleasure, with their system consistently prompt and accurate”.

Case study

Eagle Bulk’s Marc Radulovic talks digitalisation

Marc Radulovic from Eagle Bulk Shipping kindly agreed to chat to DA-Desk.

Eagle has been a customer of DA-Desk for many years. They operate a fleet of 57 vessels making 1,560 port calls a year.

Marc: “We know that Marcura is a market leader in technology and also in the processing of disbursement accounts.”

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eBooks and Reports

eBook

How to reduce your maritime anti-financial crime compliance risks

Sanctions in the maritime industry are being imposed faster than ever before, and the high-pressured regulatory landscape means not only has your liability changed, but the anti-bribery and anti-money laundering compliance landscape is becoming increasingly complex.

Inside, you’ll discover:

  • How the maritime landscape of anti-financial crime compliance is changing
  • How Operations Directors can reduce anti-financial crime compliance risks
  • Survey results – how Operations Directors view AFC challenges

Report

Avoiding the Digital Divide

How to get the most out of maritime automation and hit your digital transformation goals.

In our recent survey, the evaluation of the benefits of automation came in only a tiny degree below those of digital transformation (84% vs 80%).

What you’ll find inside:

  • The role of process automation in shipping’s digital transformation
  • Setting your automation strategy – what, why and how to automate
  • Why machines will never replace people – how to combine people, processes and technology to maximise value
  • And much more…

Guide

7 Imperatives for success

How to be successful when digitalising shipping operations

This guide explores the seven imperatives for success in the digitalisation of shipping operations.

It provides a set of ready-to-use questions, analyst commentary and cross-industry examples to address key operational issues and topics in your journey to realise your digitalisation ambitions.

Read our guide to learn:

  • The daily challenges in shipping operations
  • 7 imperatives for digital success
  • How to achieve your digitalisation ambitions

Solution videos

DA-Desk mobile app

DA-Desk PDA approval. “We’ve got an app for that.” A super quick tour of the DA-Desk phone app for shipping operations teams.

2-Minute introduction video

DA-Desk – a quick introduction to the main features and benefits of the best-in-class DA automation platform.

DA compliance

DA compliance by DA-Desk. Compliance comes built into the DA-Desk platform. It’s a major advantage of our system. We check every one of your invoices. This video gives more detail on all the different compliance areas covered.

DA-Desk Demo

19-minute demo video

Watch a full demo of all of the features of DA-Desk. Including agent appointment, PDA and FDA approval, reporting, compliance checks and the managed vessel tracking and port document management system.

Webinars

Watch our webinars on-demand

Transform Your DA Process: From Appointment to Payment

A few of the things we cover:

  • How you can simplify your DA process to just three steps
  • Reducing your compliance risk. Every port call is screened, including every appointment, PDA and FDA.
  • How we leverage the data from 2 million port calls to optimise every voyage result
  • How a combination of technology and specialists work for you to uncover rebate and discount opportunities
  • Increase efficiencies in payment processing and cash flow

DA-Desk and port cost savings

A few of the things we cover:

  • The largest and smallest credit note in 2023
  • he most common mistake or error found in the Final DA
  • Interesting results on the trends of the average credit note in the last 16 years
  • 3 touchpoints to process your DAs

DA-Desk Greek webinar

Η απλοποίηση των διαδικασιών, η ενίσχυση της νομικής συμμόρφωσης, η διαφάνεια και η εξοικονόμηση κόστους αποτελούν βασικές προτεραιότητες για τις ναυτιλιακές εταιρείες. Πολλοί μας ρωτούν πώς η DA-Desk βοηθά τους πελάτες της να επιτύχουν αυτούς τους στόχους στις δαπάνες ελλιμενισμού, ενώ ταυτόχρονα εξοικονομούν πολύτιμο χρόνο.

DA-Desk demo webinar

A few of the things we cover:

  • How managing your DA process can literally be as easy as 1-2-3
  • How a combination of technology and experts work for you to uncover rebate and discount opportunities
  • How we remove menial DA tasks so you can focus on what really matters – optimising voyage results

Understanding Process Automation in Maritime

Some of the things we cover:

  • The role of process automation in shipping’s digital transformation
  • Setting your automation strategy – what, why and how to automate
  • Why machines will never replace people – how to combine people, processes and technology to maximise value
  • And much more…

DA-Desk demo and behind-the-scenes webinar

Topics include:

  • How managing your DA process can literally be as easy as 1-2-3
  • Meet DAVE – our proprietary DA Validation Engine that checks 1,800 rules on every PDA and FDA, including applicable discounts and rebates.
  • What’s next for DA-Desk? Innovation and new features we are working on

Customer success stories

Hear from our customers

Walter from Seatrade

“We moved from piles of paper to DA-Desk.”

Mark from Eagle Bulk

“We know Marcura is a market leader in technology and in the processing of Disbursement Accounts”

Torvald Klaveness

How DA-Desk integrates into your systems – a customer story about the seamless integration between their VMS and DA-Desk.

Dionysis Tzelepis

Hear from DA-Desk’s CEO

What is the #1 benefit of DA-Desk?

Dionysis discusses big changes to the platform.

Achieving 2 million port calls in DA-Desk

Dionysis reflects after achieving 2 million port calls in DA-Desk.

DA-Desk in 60 seconds

Dionysis explains what DA-Desk is, how it benefits our customers and how our teams embody our customer first ethos.

Find out more

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