Disbursement accounts made easy: the DA-Desk brochure
How DA-Desk runs a port call’s disbursement accounts, from agent appointment to final payment, and what it checks along the way. The 14-page product brochure is free to download.
In this brochure
The three-touch process: Each step from appointing the agent to approving the final DA, and the checks that run at each one.
Where the savings come from: The six sources of savings, with a typical hard-savings table per port call.
How errors get caught: Why mooring, terminal and port tariffs are easy to get wrong, and how AIS data, port call history and pre-approval control catch the mistakes.
Compliance at every stage: The controls built into the process, from onboarding a new vendor to the sanctions and fraud checks on payments.
Customers in their own words: What shipping companies say about working with DA-Desk.
What is DA-Desk?
DA-Desk is Marcura’s digital platform and end-to-end service for port disbursement accounts (DAs). A DA is the port agent’s account of what a port call costs. The agent sends a proforma DA (PDA) with the expected costs, then a final DA (FDA) with the actual ones. DA-Desk manages both, from agent appointment to final payment, and integrates directly with your voyage management system (VMS).
Who is this brochure for?
This brochure is for you if you run port calls and pay for them: the operations, commercial, finance and compliance teams who appoint agents, approve DAs and release payments.
It is most useful if your team checks DAs by hand today, or wants DA data to reach your VMS without manual data entry. New to DA-Desk? It walks through the whole process in 14 pages. Already know it? It puts the checks, the savings and the compliance controls in one place to share with your team.
What you’ll learn
Typical provable savings come to $360 per port call. For Handysize and Handymax dry bulk, see how that splits across credit notes, FX and port service discounts, and what it adds up to for a fleet making 800 port calls a year.
The largest credit note recovered was $578,981. The smallest was $3. See which checks on tariffs, vessel rotation and duplicate invoices catch errors before you approve.
Every new vendor is screened before it can be used. Checks run against sanctions, compliance and news sources, then a verification call to an authorised signatory.
Over 85% of customers are fully VMS-integrated. Data flows both ways through an API, with integrations including Veson, Dataloy and Danaos, and onboarding has a 35-day SLA.
How a port call runs in DA-Desk
DA-Desk handles a port call in three touches.
Appoint the agent. Choose from 10,000+ vetted agents, or bring your own. The agent submits the PDA, and DA-Desk checks it against its validation rules.
Approve the PDA. You approve the PDA, and the advance payment is processed with full compliance and sanctions checks. The agent then submits the FDA.
Approve the FDA and balance. You approve the FDA. The final payment or recovery follows, with fraud and compliance checks, and all documents are archived electronically.
Get the brochure for the full savings table, the vendor screening flow and what customers say in their own words.
350+
DA-Desk customers
200,000+
Port calls per year
2M+
Port calls to date
Source: Disbursement Accounts Made Easy, DA-Desk product brochure (2026).
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