Maritime Education Outcomes: A Five-School Cohort Study
Tracking 2,400 cadets from enrollment to first employment across five partner maritime schools, with findings on OBT deployment and time-to-first-contract.
This study draws on anonymized, verified records from the Seaker network to examine how digital sea-service verification changes hiring outcomes across the Philippine manning industry.
Method
We analyzed verified deployment and sea-service data across participating agencies and schools, comparing document-processing time, crewing lead time, and record-dispute rates before and after digital verification was adopted. All records were anonymized at source; aggregates are reported at the cohort level.
Findings
Verified digital records cut document-processing time dramatically while record disputes fell to a fraction of their paper-era rate. Crewing lead time improved most for junior officers, where document friction had been the dominant delay. The effect compounds: each verified contract makes the next one faster.
Each verified contract makes the next one faster.
Implications
The results argue for treating verification as infrastructure rather than as a feature: a shared fact layer that every stakeholder — seafarer, agency, school, and regulator — can build on. The full methodology, cohort tables, and instrument appendix are in the downloadable PDF.