Every seafarer, every certificate, every voyage — managed.
Complete seafarer lifecycle from recruitment and deployment through appraisal, promotion, and repatriation. Built-in maritime payroll handles multi-currency wage scales, seniority, and CBAs. MLC 2006 and STCW work-rest hour compliance runs continuously in the background — and catches the violations that slip past day-boundary reviews.
A seafarer’s life spans a certificate matrix, a CBA schedule, a rotation cycle, and a family. Generic HR software sees none of it.
Managing a ship’s crew is not managing employees. It is orchestrating people across three or four time zones, ten or twelve nationalities, twenty overlapping regulatory regimes, and hundreds of certificate expiries — while paying them in the currency their family bank accepts. VOLAX Crew is engineered around that reality; nothing about it feels retrofitted from land HR.
Purpose-built for maritime workforce management
Visual crew planner
Drag-and-drop crew assignment across a fleet-wide timeline. Automatic rotation proposals honouring rank matrix, CBA cycle, nationality mix rules, and endorsement requirements. Conflict detection before you commit.
Maritime payroll engine
Multi-currency processing, wage scales per rank per flag, seniority increments, overtime rates, victualling deductions, bond, allotments, CBA-driven benefits. Payslips in the seafarer’s language, credited to the seafarer’s bank.
MLC 2006, STCW, ILO 180, OPA 90
Work-rest hour compliance under every relevant regime. Automatic recording where sensors permit, keyed input where they don’t, master review before submission.
Rolling-window violation detection
The critical STCW compliance step most systems miss: hidden violations spanning day boundaries. VOLAX Crew evaluates every rolling 24-hour and 7-day window, catches the non-conformity, and prompts the master before PSC does.
Certificate & license tracking
Every seafarer’s STCW certificates, endorsements, medicals, and flag documentation held in one dossier. Automatic expiry alerts at 90 / 60 / 30 / 7 days — to the crewing office and to the seafarer.
Training records & competence matrix
Rank competence requirements defined at fleet level. Individual training records checked against the matrix. Gap analysis surfaces upcoming shortfalls before they become deployment blockers.
Crew travel coordination
Sign-on and sign-off travel bookings tracked through the crewing agent. Cost captured in real time, per vessel, per voyage. Delayed-flight impact on rotation surfaced automatically.
Self-service crew portal
Seafarers submit documents, view schedules, request leave, and download payslips through a portal or mobile app — in their language. Reduces crewing-office load; improves seafarer satisfaction.
Performance appraisal
Structured appraisal at end of tour, promotion consideration, disciplinary history, feedback loop into recruitment. Historical records preserved for the length of the career.
Master’s cash & General Account
Onboard petty cash, ship-side crew expenses, disbursements, and the master’s General Account reconciled onshore. No end-of-voyage envelope-of-receipts.
Crew data feeds every module
Bring crew management into the same platform as everything else
Book a walkthrough. Bring your current rotation problem — a difficult trade route, a certificate crunch, a payroll edge case — and we’ll show you the same story in the platform.