Maritime HR & Crew Management Summit

A prepaid Visa card became "a life-changer" for Virgin’s crew. Virgin Voyages’ Andre Eduwardo walks through the move to digital payroll – and everything it removed from daily life on board.

Six years in, Norwegian Cruise Line doubled down on Brightwell. Faye Ashby’s reason: crew experience – mobile payroll, online wage statements, and money home from anywhere for 16,000 crew across the fleet.

Seatrade takes a $100,000-a-year cash bill out of crew pay. Paying crew straight to a MarTrust crew account took the cash off the ships, cut the monthly payroll admin, and removed a safety risk at West African ports.

Euronav’s crew stopped waiting for port to get paid. Captain Vasileios on replacing cash-to-master with the MarTrust e-wallet — deposits land at sea, and a transfer home clears in under an hour.

Hafnia cut a $35m-a-year cash-to-master bill down to petty cash. Digital payroll on the MarTrust e-wallet now runs across 120 ships – Head of Crewing Shivas Kapoor on the rollout, and on paying crew through sanctions.