The ideas of transversals are important to study algebraic structures which are useful for investigating semirings structure. In this paper, we introduce and explore split additively orthodox semirings which are special semirings with transversals. After obtaining some property theorems of split additively orthodox semirings, the structure theorem for them is obtained by using idempotent semirings, additively inverse semirings, and Munn semigroup. It not only extends and strengthens the corresponding results of Clifford semirings and split orthodox semigroups but also develops a new way to study semirings.

A semiring $(S,+,\cdot )$ is called additively orthodox semiring if its additive reduct $(S,+)$ is a orthodox semigroup. In this paper, by introducing some special semiring transversals as the tools, the constructions of additively orthodox semirings with a skew-ring transversal or with a generalized Clifford semiring transversal are established. Meanwhile, it is shown that an additively orthodox semiring with a generalized Clifford semiring transversal is a b-lattice of additively orthodox semirings with skew-ring transversals. Consequently, the corresponding results of Clifford semirings and generalized Clifford semirings in reference (M. K. Sen, S. K. Maity, K. P. Shum, Clifford semirings and generalized Clifford semirings, Taiwan. J. Math., 9 (2005), 433–444) and completely regular semirings in reference (S. K. Maity, M. K. Sen, K. P. Shum, On completely regular semirings, Bull. Cal. Math. Soc., 98 (2006), 319–328) are extended and strengthened.