Marcura, a maritime technology and services group, has acquired the business assets of Fairway Maritime LLC, a U.S.-based specialist in demurrage and marine claims management. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition is the third by Marcura Claims following earlier purchases of HubSE and Shipdem, and the company says the combined operation now constitutes the largest laytime processor by volume in the industry.
Founded in 2005, Fairway Maritime manages the complete claims lifecycle for shipowners, vessel pools, refiners, and trading companies across the United States and Europe, covering demurrage, deviation, shifting, detention, and other reimbursement claims. Its senior analysts have backgrounds on the demurrage, operations, and trading desks of major commodity trading houses and oil companies, giving them experience on both sides of a claim — a depth of commercial judgment that Marcura views as essential for resolving the edge cases that arise frequently in complex demurrage disputes, particularly across tanker, inland barge, and commodity trading markets.
Marcura Claims operates across three tiers: self-serve laytime tools, AI-assisted claims processing, and fully managed services spanning every major cargo segment. The AI layer handles document reading, clause extraction, and calculation standardization, while human experts provide the commercial judgment and continuous model training that keep the system accurate. Fairway’s team of analysts will continue serving existing customers following the integration while contributing their expertise across Marcura’s broader demurrage portfolio. Tom Black, Fairway’s Managing Partner, will remain with Marcura in an advisory capacity.
KEY QUOTES:
“Marcura’s technology platform puts AI to work where it adds the most value, taking on more of the heavy lifting in a claim: reading documents, extracting clauses, and standardising calculations. But AI is not a project you complete; it is a production that runs every day, and it only stays reliable when experts continuously train and correct it. The outcome still turns on commercial judgement. Edge cases in demurrage are frequent, and Fairway has spent twenty years making those calls. For customers who need a fully managed service, that means even greater confidence in the claims that are hardest to get right.”
Henrik Hyldahn, Group CEO, Marcura
“We built Fairway Maritime on a simple promise: hand us the documents and we will handle everything through to collection. Joining the Marcura team means keeping true to that promise, with added muscle. The work Marcura is doing with AI-assisted claims management is exciting. That ongoing investment, at scale, is something our team and our customers stand to benefit from.”
Tom Black, Managing Partner, Fairway Maritime
