armada marine

What armada marine does

Armada Marine (Guernsey) Ltd, founded in 2008, is a private employment services company that acts as the legal employer for offshore seafarers working in the oil, gas, and renewables industries. The company contracts with recruitment agencies and sole agents on a business-to-business basis, while employing the placed seafarers directly, handling employment contracts, invoicing, payroll payments, UK taxes, National Insurance contributions (where applicable), and issuance of Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) compliant Seafarer's Employment Agreements. Clients cited in testimonials include ROV Supervisors, Surveyors, and Party Chiefs with reported tenures of 3-5+ years.

The technology stack centers on the Cintra-powered online payroll portal, which provides employees self-service access to electronic payslips, P60s, and historical payroll records, alongside multi-currency wage payment processing and rule-based automated generation of MLC-compliant employment agreements for each new assignment. The Guernsey jurisdiction is a deliberate structural feature: it eliminates UK Employers National Insurance (15%) on qualifying offshore work and renders services VAT-free, enabling recruitment agencies to offer higher net day rates to personnel. An integrated Norwegian Tax Reporting Service (£120/month) plus D Number application (£75) and reactivation (£35) services extend the platform into cross-border tax compliance.

Revenue is generated primarily through a transaction fee of 3% of the agency charge-out rate per day worked (3.5% for contracts under 10 days), aligning Armada's revenue with days actually worked, with supplementary managed-service fees for Norwegian tax reporting and one-time fees for tax ID administration. The go-to-market is reputation-driven and referral-based, leveraging 17 years of operating history and approval by recruitment agencies, with no formal sales or marketing infrastructure beyond a website, phone, and email contact channel.

Name

armada marine

Legal name

Armada Marine Ltd

Website

https://armadamarine.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Armada Marine (Guernsey) Ltd, founded in 2008, provides payroll, employment administration, and cross-border tax compliance services to offshore seafarers in the oil, gas, and renewables industries via recruitment agency partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Plymouth

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Daily Payroll Processing Fee: Transaction-based fee calculated as a percentage of the agency charge-out rate. Standard rate of 3% per day applied to agency charge-out rate; 3.5% per day for contracts under 10 days. Fee covers invoicing, payroll processing, wage payments, and MLC-compliant employment agreement generation.
2. Norwegian Tax Reporting Service: Monthly managed service fee of £120 per calendar month covering Norway tax calculations, submissions, and year-end tax/NI statement preparation for Seafarers Earnings Deduction claims.
3. Tax Registration Services: One-time fees for Norwegian tax identification: £75 for new D Number/Tax ID application, £35 for D Number reactivation. Supplementary service supporting the Norwegian reporting workflow.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Armada Marine (Guernsey) Ltd provides professional employment services for individuals working offshore in the oil, gas, and renewables industry. The company acts as the legal employer, liaising with recruitment agencies to handle employment contracts (MLC-approved Seafarer Employment Agreements), invoicing, payroll payments, UK taxes, and National Insurance contributions. The Cintra web portal provides electronic payslips and P60s, and a managed Norwegian Tax Reporting service handles cross-border tax compliance at £120/month.

Product overview

Armada Marine is a single-service employment platform providing payroll and employment administration specifically for offshore seafarers in the oil, gas, and renewables sectors. The core offering is the Employment Services for Seafarers, which handles employment contracts, invoicing, payroll processing, and tax/NI compliance. This is supported by the Cintra-powered Online Payroll Portal for employee self-service document access. An optional Norwegian Tax Reporting Service handles cross-border tax obligations for seafarers working in Norwegian waters.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Employment Services for Seafarers End-to-end offshore employment administration: Armada Marine acts as the legal employer for seafarers working in oil, gas, and renewables, liaising with recruitment agencies to handle the employee's employment contract (MLC-approved Seafarer Employment Agreement), invoicing, payroll payments, UK taxes, and National Insurance contributions. Multi-currency wage payments are supported.
• Norwegian Tax Reporting Service

Quantifiable outcome

• Elimination of UK Employers NI (15%) for qualifying assignments
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Atlas Professionals: Netherlands-based offshore recruitment and payroll specialist placing ROV pilots, surveyors, and offshore crew globally. Closely comparable to Armada Marine in serving the same offshore energy workforce through agency and direct channels, with an overlapping payroll/employment wrapper offering.
• OSM Maritime Group: Norway-headquartered ship management and offshore crew management group that handles seafarer employment, payroll, and tax compliance across multiple flag states. Directly comparable as a provider of MLC-compliant employment administration for offshore workers, operating from a similar North-Sea-centric geographic base.
• Marlow Navigation: Cyprus-based ship management company providing full crewing, payroll, and employment administration for seafarers worldwide. Directly comparable to Armada Marine on the core activity of employing seafarers on behalf of vessel operators and handling multi-jurisdiction tax and social-security compliance.
• Executive Ship Management: Singapore-based ship management group with a dedicated offshore division handling crewing, payroll, and employment of seafarers on offshore support and platform vessels. Directly comparable to Armada in serving offshore energy clients with MLC-compliant seafarer employment infrastructure.
• Synergy Marine Group: Singapore-headquartered ship management company with a large seafarer crewing and payroll operation serving tankers, offshore, and gas carrier segments. Closely comparable to Armada on the offshore seafarer employment and payroll wrapper, particularly for cross-border assignments.
• Thome Ship Management: Singapore-based ship manager operating a global crewing and payroll function, including offshore vessels. Comparable to Armada Marine on the seafarer employment, payroll, and multi-jurisdiction tax compliance offering for offshore energy clients.

Broad incumbents

• V.Ships: World's largest independent ship management company, headquartered in the UK, with a global crewing and seafarer payroll operation. Overlaps with Armada on the seafarer employment and payroll wrapper but operates at materially greater scale and across the full ship-management value chain.
• Anglo-Eastern Group: Hong Kong-headquartered ship manager with one of the largest seafarer pools in the world, providing crewing, payroll, and MLC-compliant employment services. Comparable on the employment-wrapper activity but a broader incumbent offering full technical management alongside crewing.
• Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement: German-headquartered ship management group operating a global crewing and payroll function for ship-owning clients. Comparable on seafarer employment administration and multi-jurisdiction tax handling, but a broader incumbent with full technical and commercial management offerings.
• Wilhelmsen Ship Management: Norway-based ship management arm of Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA, providing crewing, payroll, and seafarer employment services alongside wider maritime products. Comparable on the payroll and MLC-compliant employment wrapper, but operating at much greater scale and as part of a diversified maritime conglomerate.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/armada-marine-limited

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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