BunkerPay coordinates a corridor network that connects Europe, Latin America and Africa — allowing maritime customers to fund in EUR, USD, USDC or USDT and pay counterparties via SEPA, SWIFT or supported local payment rails, all delivered by regulated partner institutions.
The route every payment takes is determined by what the operation requires. The underlying infrastructure — provided by our partners — stays regulated, traceable and consistent across every corridor.
A vessel can change jurisdictions faster than a payment can clear. A ship manager in São Paulo paying a shipyard in Algeciras moves cargo across an ocean in twenty days; the wire transfer to settle the shipyard invoice can take longer to arrive than the ship took to cross.
In Latin America and Africa, operators face restricted access to USD and EUR banking, narrowing correspondent banking corridors, and FX execution that bears little relationship to interbank markets. In Europe, maritime companies face the inverse problem when paying counterparties — banking infrastructure that European correspondent banks have moved away from. BunkerPay connects customers to regulated partners able to handle these corridors, and orchestrates the route end to end.
Inbound to Europe from LATAM and Africa. Outbound from Europe to LATAM and Africa. The same regulated infrastructure, the same settlement standards, applied in both directions of the maritime payment.
Every BunkerPay-orchestrated payment follows the same regulated route — from funding instruction to counterparty settlement — using infrastructure provided by our regulated partners, regardless of which corridor it crosses.
The optimal route depends on where the payment originates, where it needs to land, what currency or asset funds the transaction, and what the counterparty's bank accepts. Our team performs payment route assessments for new client engagements — without obligation, before any account is opened.