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Marlo Blog

Follow the MARLO blog for product announcements, feature updates,
user stories, and technical posts about banking.

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How Geopolitical Fragmentation Is Reshaping Maritime Trade Lanes in 2025 - a researched analysis

2025 has become the year maritime trade stopped assuming “steady state” routes. Multiple simultaneous geopolitical shocks — Red Sea attacks, renewed Black Sea instability, and heightened East Asia tensions — are forcing routings, insurance pricing,...

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Sanctions screening + explainable AI: building trustable decision layers for chartering

Sanctions risk is now an operational risk for every ship operator. Recent enforcement guidance and high-profile enforcement actions show regulators...

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Overpayments, Refunds and Vendor Credit Notes: Handling Complex Payment Flows in Maritime ERP

1 | Types of “extra” cashflows you’ll see in shipping Shipping creates particular situations that commonly yield overpayments, credits or refunds:

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FX Risk & Treasury Best Practices for Ship Operators

1. Understand your exposures (don’t guess) Start by mapping where currency risk actually appears across the voyage lifecycle: Freight receipts:...

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Image saying: TIME LOST AT SEA = MONEY STUCK IN PAYMENT CYCLE

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Why Maritime Payment Delays Reached 42 Days. Business Impact & What Operators Can Do

Summary In recent maritime logistics literature, payment delays across freight, shipping, and related supply chain services have been found to...

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A panoramic view of the ocean showing multiple dry bulk vessels sailing in different directions, connected by glowing digital lines and nodes that form a network across the sea. Above the horizon, a faint world map overlay and holographic icons for AI, compliance, and finance float in the sky, symbolizing a unified global fleet powered by data and artificial intelligence.

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Why the next generation of maritime software will be unified, AI-enabled, and compliance-first

The maritime sector is entering a new software era. As regulatory pressure grows, data volumes explode, and commercial margins stay thin, shipowners...

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Unifying finance and voyage operations: Reducing reconciliation risk

In today’s fast‑moving maritime industry, operators struggle not only with navigating seas, but with navigating silos. Historically, the voyage...

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Turning Voyage Telemetry into Commercial Advantage

The ship that sails fastest isn’t always the most profitable one — but the ship whose decisions are driven by high-quality voyage telemetry often is....

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Hyper-realistic digital artwork showing a cargo ship sailing across the ocean at night, symbolizing the digital voyage continuum. The scene includes holographic chartering documents, satellite connections, and a glowing financial dashboard, representing the complete maritime workflow — from chartering to voyage execution to post-voyage finance. The image features the tagline “Every stage. One platform.” and conveys the concept of unified maritime operations, digital transformation, and smart shipping technology.

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From Pre-Fixture to Post-Voyage: Why the Industry Is Moving to Integrated Platforms

For decades, shipping companies have managed their commercial, operational, and financial activities through a web of disconnected tools —...

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The Credit Score of Shipping: Why Transparency Matters

Introduction: Trust Is the New Currency In shipping, every fixture, charter, and voyage involves risk. Not just operational or weather risk—but ...

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