Banking with SEAWire

SEAWire Overview

The SEAwire program enables officers working under a Seagoing Employment Agreement (SEA) to have their paychecks automatically deposited into their home country bank accounts. Every month, instead of receiving your paycheck in cash (USD), your wages will instead be deposited directly into your personal bank account in the currency you have specified. If you have specified a currency other than USD, your wages will be converted into the other currency at the foreign exchange rate that applies on the date the payment is deposited into your bank account. Wages for each month will generally be deposited within the first 10 days of the next month.

SEAwire allows SEA employees to wire their US Dollar pay to their bank accounts in

• US Dollars - USD
• Euros - EUR
• Pound Sterling - GBP
• Canadian Dollars - CAD
• Australian Dollars - AUD
• Croatia Kuna - HRK
• Czech - koruna - CZK
• Hong Kong - dollar - HKD
• Hungary - forint - HUG
• Mexico - new peso - MXN
• New Zealand - dollar - NZD
• Norway - krone - NOK
• Poland - zloty - PLN
• Singapore - dollar - SGD
• South Africa - rand - ZAR
• Sweden - Krona - SEK
• Switzerland - franc - CHF
• Turkey - lira - TRY

Indonesia, India and the Philippines were not included as there are already systems in place that enable officers from those countries to have their pay transferred directly to their home bank accounts.

SEAWire Details

HAL does not charge any fee for this service.  In addition, HAL will be absorbing the wire transfer fees charged by HAL's bank.  Your bank, or the banks it works through, may charge their own fees for which each individual would be responsible.  If these fees are charged, we still expect (but cannot guarantee) your costs to be less than those you incur under the current process which requires you to deposit your USD paycheck to your into your account through a different service.

Once enrolled in the program, you do not have to enroll again every time you begin a new sailing assignment.  The prior enrollment will continue. 

You may withdraw from the program at any time.  If your banking information ever changes, you need to immediately send us a new enrollment form with the corrected information.

Enrollment

To enroll in the program, you need to complete a SEA Staff Wire Set-Up and Maintenance Form.  Please download the form, complete all the information on the lines highlighted in yellow by typing the information (to facilitate accuracy), sign it, scan it and email it to Ade Suchyar in Human Resources Department at asuchyar@hollandamerica.com. 

You will need the following information to complete the form:

• The exact name(s) on your bank account. (Note: Be sure that if you and your spouse are owners of the same account, that you provide both of your full names.)
• The full name of your bank.
• Bank Information
• The full address of your bank.
• Bank City, State (Province), and Country
• Your International Bank Account Number (IBAN)
• The SWIFT Code of your bank.
• The Sort Code of your bank.
• Other Bank Routing Information (e.g., CAB, ABI, or other banking codes)
• Since payments will be sent by HAL from New York or London, you will need to inquire whether your bank uses a correspondent bank when receiving wire payments from HAL's bank, JPMorgan Chase.  If so, you will need to get from your bank the following information for the correspondent bank
• Full name of Correspondent Bank
• Full address of Correspondent Bank
• Correspondent Bank City, State (Province), and Country
• Correspondent IBAN (International Bank Account Number)
• Swift Code and Sort Code for the Correspondent Bank
• Other Correspondent Bank Routing Information (e.g., CAB, ABI, or other banking codes)
• If you have any questions about your wire instructions you should directly contact your bank to obtain the proper information for your purposes of wiring funds to your account.  This will facilitate accuracy and timeliness of wire payments to your bank account, as well as minimize the potential for errors.

Withdrawing from the Program

If you want to withdraw from the program at any time, send an email to Ade Suchyar at asuchyar@hollandamerica.com.

Changing Information

If your banking information changes at any time, you will need to complete a new form and complete the enrollment process.

Reporting of payment activity by currency will be presented on an individual’s Statement of Earnings, as generated from the Cruise Administration Payroll (CAP) system.

Many answers to common questions can be answered on SEAWire FAQ page.