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MARITIME & PORTS

Trade doesn’t stop.
Keep finance in step.

Align digital-currency payments, liquidity and cash visibility with maritime operations that run around the clock.

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WHY IT MATTERS

A payment workflow for an always-on industry.

Vessel calls, port services and international trade cross time zones and weekends. Finance teams must coordinate obligations, counterparties and cash while banking windows vary across markets.

Where a counterparty can accept and use a supported stablecoin, digital payment can continue outside conventional bank processing hours. STM brings those payments into the same control and reconciliation workflow as other obligations.

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Maritime & Ports / Connected financial operations

AN ILLUSTRATIVE WORKFLOW

A weekend port-service invoice.

An approved invoice enters the operator’s finance workflow. STM checks the beneficiary and available funds, and records the required approvals. The customer’s custodian executes the transfer. STM observes and reconciles the evidence. If the service provider requires fiat, conversion and bank credit are separate steps with their own timing.

  1. 01STM

    Check

    Check the instruction, beneficiary and observed funds. Compare eligible routes.

  2. 02YOUR ORGANISATION

    Approve

    Authorised people approve within your policy and signatory mandates.

  3. 03YOUR BANK / CUSTODIAN

    Execute

    Your chosen provider signs and moves the funds. You retain custody and execution.

  4. 04STM

    Observe

    Read bank notifications and chain evidence. Track the result against the instruction.

  5. 05STM

    Reconcile

    Match the evidence. Surface differences for investigation and resolution.

WHERE STM CONTRIBUTES

Connect the functions to the workflow.

01

Freight & port-service payments

Coordinate approved invoices and beneficiary checks across the chosen payment route.

02

Cash across operating entities

See observed positions and expected obligations across accounts, entities and currencies.

03

Multiparty obligations

Explore netting for eligible freight, service and demurrage obligations before external settlement.

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT

See the need.
Plan the response.

Bring upcoming obligations into the liquidity conversation. Forecast shortfalls, assess concentrations and evaluate funding options before a payment becomes urgent.

The objective is better alignment between financial workflows and operational needs, with clearer payment status and fewer disconnected records.

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Your funds. Your authority. Your organisation and its chosen banks and custodians retain the accounts, keys and execution. STM coordinates, observes and reconciles.

This illustrates how STM functions can apply to maritime finance. Operational milestones come from customer systems. Dedicated port-system connectors, automatic cargo release and avoided-demurrage results are not implied.

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THE NEXT CONVERSATION

Let’s put real-time finance
to work for you.

Start with a workflow. Explore what changes with STM.

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