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A decade of shipping software for the maritime industry teaches you things no product book covers. Here are the ones that stuck. Build for the pier,…

For most seafarers, proof of experience is a folder: photocopies, wet stamps, and the hope that nothing goes missing between contracts. A verified…

Seaker has passed 100,000 registered Filipino seafarers, a milestone that makes the platform the largest verified seafarer network in the country.…

The Department of Migrant Workers continues to digitize seafarer documentation, and the direction of travel is clear: paper folders are on the way…

Version 2 of the Seaker Manning recruitment management system is now live for all partner agencies. The headline feature is lineup boards: a single…

An annual survey of deployment, wages, and demand across the Philippine seafaring workforce, drawn from anonymized platform data covering more than 100,000 registered seafarers.

Seaker presented at the Asia Maritime Forum in Singapore, joining a panel on digital crewing infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The presentation…

How cryptographically signed sea-service entries cut verification time from weeks to minutes, and what that means for manning agencies and principals.

Tracking 2,400 cadets from enrollment to first employment across five partner maritime schools, with findings on OBT deployment and time-to-first-contract.