Marsa · the operating desk for Gulf shippingمرسى

Compliance, charters, fleet.
One desk.

Marsa is the operating desk for shipping companies in the Gulf. Clear a vessel before the fixture, keep every charter's delays, claims and protests together, keep each ship's certificates and maintenance in order, and watch your fleet across the Gulf. A person's name goes on every decision, and every decision leaves as a file anyone can verify.

Set up your team → Start a pilot

Two minutes. No account. Nothing leaves your browser.

What Marsa is

One desk. Four jobs.

A Gulf shipping company does the same four things with every ship: decides whether to deal with her, runs the charter, keeps her ready to sail, and keeps her in sight. Marsa puts all four on one desk, and each one ends with a person's name, never the software's.

The Marsa check screen for a sample tanker named on three sanctions lists01
Clear Start here

Check a ship before you fix her.

Type the IMO number or drop the Q88. Marsa reads every government list it holds, including the companies behind the hull.

  • Shows what it could not check, never a false pass
  • A person clears, asks questions or turns it down
  • A sealed file your bank can verify in one step
Try a check →
Marsa delays and claims: five delays across a fleet, each with its cause, what it cost and the documents behind it02
Charter

Run the charter, not the paperwork.

Every delay with its cause, the weather at the time, what it cost and the documents behind it, held together so it goes to the charterer as one pack.

  • Delays, claims and what is still open
  • Letters of protest written from the facts
  • Hire sheets checked for what has not arrived
See delays and claims →
The Marsa fleet desk listing seven sample ships, worst first, with what stands in the way of each sailing03
Fleet

Keep every ship ready to sail.

What stands in the way of each ship sailing, worst first, and the paperwork ready before anyone asks for it.

  • Certificates, maintenance and critical equipment
  • Defects and orders, and where they are
  • Answers from the manual, with the page
See the fleet desk →
The Marsa world: the Gulf, Hormuz and the Gulf of Oman with ships drawn by type and named seas04
Watch Customers

Keep your fleet in sight.

The Gulf on one screen: ships by type, sanctioned hulls ringed, your own ships picked out, and the news that moves the risk.

  • Dark and loitering events, port calls, weather
  • UKMTO notices and 200 maritime headlines a day
  • Opens with your pilot or subscription
Customers: open the world →
Who it is for

Built for the people who have to sign.

Compliance and chartering

Traders and charterers

Clear every vessel before the fixture, keep the charter's delays and claims in one pack, and show your director exactly who decided what.

Clear · Charter · Watch
Operations

Ship agents and bunker suppliers

Check a ship in seconds before you commit a berth or a stem, and keep the record for when someone asks.

Clear · Watch
Fleet

Owners and managers

See what stands in the way of each ship sailing, and have certificates, protests and claims ready before they are chased.

Fleet · Charter · Watch · Clear
Receiving a file

Banks, insurers, counterparties

Drop a Marsa file on marsadesk.com/verify and see at once whether a single word has changed. Free, no account.

Verify
The problem

One hull. Six desks. Six separate bills.

Before a single fixture, the trader, the charterer, the bunker supplier, the ship agent, the insurer and the bank all screen the same vessel. Each one pays for its own seat. And not one of them is allowed to pass the answer on, because the licence they signed forbids it. So the same work is bought six times and shared nought times.

DESK 01Check.The trader, before the fixture
DESK 02Check.The charterer, the same hull, from scratch
DESK 03Check.The bunker supplier asks again
DESK 04Check.The bank asks again, and cannot see the rest
MARSACheck once.One record, and a name against it
The idea

One check, and a record that holds up.

Marsa checks the hull and every company standing behind it, then writes down what it found, what it could not check, which edition of which list it read, and the minute it read it. A person clears it or refuses it, and their name goes on the record. That record belongs to you.

VESSEL · IMO 9610781 NIKOLAY ZUYEV OFAC ✓   UK ✓   CANADA ✓ OWNERS ✓   FLAGS ✓ CHECKED ONCE Trader compliance The charterer The bunker supplier The ship agent The insurer The bank VESSEL · IMO 9610781 NIKOLAY ZUYEV OFAC ✓  UK ✓  CANADA ✓ CHECKED ONCE Trader compliance The charterer The bunker supplier The ship agent The insurer The bank
Checked against every list we hold Stamped with the minute it was read Signed by a person, never the software
Marsa · Arabic for anchorage
مرسى

The sheltered water where ships come to rest. One place to be sure about a ship, before you commit to it.

How a team starts

From your own ships to a signed file in one sitting.

No training pack and no kick-off deck. The desk walks your team through it, and the first check is one of your own ships.

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Set up in two minutes

Your company, the ships you care about, and who signs. The desk opens on your own fleet.

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Check, decide, file

Your ships are one press away. Record a decision with a reason, make the sealed file, send it to whoever needs it.

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Pilot for sixty days

One team, one workflow, your real ships. We set it up with you in week one and measure the time it saves.

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Keep it

A company subscription with users included, because a reviewer and a signer should see the same file.

Set up your team →Start a pilot

While you try it, everything stays in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Plans

Start small. Grow into it.

Priced per company, never per seat. Every plan keeps the source of every line, the person behind every decision, and the file.

To begin

Pilot, sixty days

Prove it on your own ships before you commit.

  • One team and one workflow
  • Set up with us in week one
  • A review of use and time saved at day sixty
For compliance

Clearance desk

Clear and Watch, for the team that signs off vessels.

  • Checks, decisions and sealed files
  • The live Gulf with your ships picked out
  • Users included
For owners and managers

Operating desk

Clear, Charter, Fleet and Watch: the whole desk, for the company that runs ships.

  • Everything in the Clearance desk
  • Charters: delays, claims, protests, hire
  • Fleet: certificates, maintenance, manuals
  • More users, more ships, shared review

Ask us for the numbers: start a pilot and we will send a one-page scope with the price.

How Marsa is built

Three rules we do not break.

Check once

The check belongs to the hull and the companies behind it, not to one deal's folder. Six desks screening the same ship in one week is six bills for one piece of work.

Marsa records, a person attests

The software reaches no view of its own and will never tell you a ship is clean. It gathers, it stamps, it lays out what it could not check. A person decides, gives a reason, and puts their name on it. That is the legal architecture, not a design preference.

Nothing without a source

Every line links back to the government list it came from, which edition of it, and the minute it was read. Marsa reads those lists directly and on purpose, because the established providers' licences forbid you to pass their answer to anyone else.

Design partner
Bridgefort Maritime

Marsa is being built hand in hand with our design partner, Bridgefort Maritime: a Gulf maritime investment group whose core team has worked together for over a decade, with more than $2BN in maritime transactions behind them. Their desk hits these walls every week, so the product is shaped where the pain is real.

Questions

What people ask first.

Does Marsa decide whether a ship is safe?

No, and it never will. It records what the lists say, what it could not check and why, and who decided. A person clears, asks questions or turns the ship down, with a reason and their name.

Which lists does it read?

The government sanctions lists it holds, read from the governments that publish them, with the edition and the minute recorded on every check. Where a list is not connected, Marsa says so instead of reporting a pass. See where the lists come from.

How live is the world in the Gulf?

The world reads public and volunteer AIS feeds. They hear the eastern Mediterranean well and the Gulf thinly, so many Gulf positions are last known, and every ship says how old her position is. Denser Gulf coverage needs a licensed feed, which we scope with you in the pilot. The world opens for customers and pilots with an access code.

Where is our data kept?

While you try Marsa, everything stays in your own browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Before any of your real records go in for a pilot, we agree in writing where they are kept and who can see them.

Do we have to replace our screening provider?

No. You can run both while you compare. The difference is that Marsa shows its working and lets you pass the file on, which most screening licences forbid.

We already pay for AIS or screening data. Can Marsa use it?

Yes. Marsa brings its own sources, and a company that already subscribes to VesselAPI, OpenSanctions, Spire, MarineTraffic, Lloyd's List Intelligence, Sea-web, World-Check or Dow Jones can connect it. Marsa uses it beside its own, with the source named on every line.

Can the person receiving our file check it?

Yes. They drop it on marsadesk.com/verify and see at once whether a single word has changed since it was sealed. Free, and no account.

Start with your own ships.

Tell us who you are and what your team does. We will set Marsa up with your ships and your team, agree a sixty-day pilot, and send you a one-page scope with the price.

Try it with your ships first Meet the team
Or write to us any time: hello@marsadesk.com