Press & institutional resources

Seafarer Index is a free, login-optional reference for working seafarers, cadets, and the people who manage them. Compiled from public sources (UN/LOCODE, IMO, ILO, Paris/Tokyo MoU, ITF, national maritime authorities, ICMA partners). No tracking, no AI generation, no paywalls.

One-line description

Seafarer Index is the free, open-data reference portal for the world's ~1.9 million seafarers — every port, ship, flag state, STCW certificate, and welfare helpline at a permanent URL.

Key statistics

• 17,524 UN/LOCODE ports
• 136 flag states with MLC/MoU/FoC status
• 654 glossary terms
• 144 STCW certifications
• 123 welfare helplines
• 423 seafarer centres
• 1045 wage reference rows
• 272 STCW training centres
• 531 licensed manning agencies
• 1000 sample ships (Equasis-derived)

Logo & mark

We don't maintain a separate brandmark — please use the site name "Seafarer Index" in plain typography. If a publication needs a logo file, contact via the address below and we'll provide an SVG.

Canonical link targets

Pages that journalists, P&I clubs, and academies most often link to:

• • Crew-change visa matrix — port country × seafarer nationality lookup.
• • Flag-state comparison tool — three-way side-by-side on MLC, Paris/Tokyo MoU, FoC.
• • Manning agency registry — licence status across DMW, DG Shipping, Maradmin, DGST.
• • STCW training centres — accredited academies and METCs.
• • PSC detentions — searchable Paris/Tokyo MoU detention records.
• • Welfare helplines — sortable global directory.
• • Open-data dump — JSON downloads of every dataset (CC BY 4.0).
• • Reference hub — 80+ pages of conventions, codes, signals, calculators.
• • Country guides — 11 nations covering ~90% of working seafarers.

Citation

See /cite for APA / Chicago / MLA / ISO / BibTeX strings, plus dataset attribution under CC BY 4.0.

Newsroom feed

Subscribe to /changelog/rss.xml (Atom 1.0) to be notified of dataset updates and new reference pages.

Contact

Open an issue at github.com/bryanflowers/seafarerindex, or use the "Report an error" link at the foot of every page. We respond within 72 hours during business days.

Editorial principles

• Public sources only — UN/LOCODE, IMO, ILO, Paris/Tokyo MoU, ITF, national authorities, named industry surveys.
• No AI-generated text. All reference content is human-written.
• No tracking, no analytics, no third-party cookies.
• Static-first architecture; no paid APIs, no inference at runtime.
• Every page carries a last-updated date traced to git commit history.
• Errors are corrected publicly — see https://seafarerindex.com/changelog.