The study aimed to determine the capacity of the Philippine maritime industry to produce officers per STCW requirements, and specifically sought to determine the outputs of Maritime Higher Education Institutions (MHEIs) in terms of enrollees versus graduates and deployment rate, determine the availability of training berths in domestic and international shipping, and identify issues/concerns and recommendations thereto in the implementation of the onboard training of cadets. Data were collected through survey questionnaire administered to MHEIs and shipping companies/crewing agencies in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. Data were also generated from agency data providers. It can be gleaned from the findings of the study that urgent actions are needed on the issues/concerns and recommendations thereto raised by industry stakeholders for the country to have the capacity to produce OICs and thereby respond to the demand for officers in the global and domestic maritime labor industry. The study revealed the difficulty of MHEIs to deploy their cadets and attain the deployment rate required by regulatory bodies, the inadequate number of domestic ships qualified for OBT of cadets, the limited availability of oceangoing vessels that accept cadets for OBT, and the commercialization of the OBT in domestic ships. Respondent-stakeholders recommended that MARINA should fast track the completion of admeasurement of domestic ships and regularly post an updated inventory of ships qualified for OBT that is accessible to industry stakeholders, regulate the shipboard fee of cadets collected by domestic shipping companies, require qualified domestic ships to accommodate cadets for OBT with mandatory number of cadets per vessel and to comply with standards. They proposed for CHED to limit the intake of students by MHEIs based on carrying capacity and enhance the curriculum to include values formation of students. The respondent-stakeholders also urged the government to acquire training ships to supplement the training berths for cadets.