Navarino has announced a new partnership with LEDGID, a company building a neutral trust infrastructure for the maritime industry, designed to make verified professional identity, credentials and compliance records portable, auditable and reusable across the seafarer lifecycle.

The collaboration reflects a shared vision to reduce fragmentation across the maritime ecosystem by enabling verified information and compliance evidence to be exchanged through secure and controlled processes, while remaining anchored to a user-owned digital identity.

LEDGID’s model is designed to enable interoperability between regulators, operators, vendors and welfare organisations through a structured trust layer that records verification as an auditable event. Rather than replacing existing systems or authorities, LEDGID enables verified records to be reused across employers, services and jurisdictions, helping reduce duplicated verification processes, operational friction and administrative delay.

At the centre of the infrastructure is a persistent, user-owned digital identity, allowing professional records and verified achievements to remain linked to the individual seafarer throughout their career, regardless of employer or geography.

Through the partnership, Navarino and LEDGID will explore opportunities to support more seamless digital trust exchange across maritime operations and welfare ecosystems, while helping operators and service providers benefit from more continuous and portable verification models.

“Maritime continues to face significant challenges caused by fragmented systems and disconnected verification processes,” said Alex Giouzenis, CTO at Navarino. “LEDGID’s approach to portable, auditable trust aligns strongly with our vision of enabling smarter, more connected maritime operations through digital innovation.”

“LEDGID is not about replacing existing institutions or infrastructure,” said Henning Davies, CEO at LEDGID. “It is about creating a neutral trust layer that allows verified professional identity and achievements to move with the seafarer and be reused across the wider maritime ecosystem.”

LEDGID describes its mission in four words: Neutral. Trust. Portability. Reuse.

By combining Navarino’s experience in maritime technology and connectivity with LEDGID’s trust infrastructure model, the partnership aims to contribute toward a more interoperable, efficient and seafarer-centric digital maritime environment.