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10 Jun 2021

NYK Subsidiary, MarCoPay Test Paying Seafarers' Salaries in Digital Currency

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An NYK Group shipmanagement subsidiary has begun to pay seafarers’ salaries in digital currency issued by MarCoPay Inc., a joint venture of NYK and the Transnational Diversified Group in the Philippines.After a successful March 2020 trial distributing electronic currency to seafarers at sea for the first time in the world, MarCoPay Inc. subsequently received approval from Philippine ministries and agencies to pay salaries to seafarers in digital currency.Filipino sailors on board an LNG carrier sailing off the coast of Durban…

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