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Seafarer Index

Crew-change hubs by coverage

All 115 hubs in our directory have IMO/ICS/IFSMA recognition; what varies is the support infrastructure indexed in this directory. Hubs ranked highly here have welfare-centre presence in our /centers data and port-authority data, meaning a seafarer arriving at one of these has the directory's full assistance toolset. The bias toward Asia and the Indian subcontinent reflects where centre coverage AND hub status overlap — the European and North American hubs are real, but our centre dataset under-indexes them today.

#NameWelfare centresNotes
1Rotterdam4NLRTM · Netherlands
2Hamburg4DEHAM · Germany
3Singapore3SGSIN · Singapore
4Southampton3GBSOU · United Kingdom
5Tokyo2JPTYO · Japan
6Incheon2KRINC · South Korea
7Manila2PHMNL · Philippines
8Mumbai (ex Bombay)2INBOM · India
9Jebel Ali2AEJEA · United Arab Emirates
10Durban2ZADUR · South Africa
11Cape Town2ZACPT · South Africa
12Antwerpen2BEANR · Belgium
13Zeebrugge2BEZEE · Belgium
14Marseille2FRMRS · France
15Le Havre2FRLEH · France
16Piraeus2GRPIR · Greece
17Liverpool2GBLIV · United Kingdom
18Felixstowe2GBFXT · United Kingdom
19Houston2USHOU · United States
20Savannah2USSAV · United States
21Brisbane2AUBNE · Australia
22Fremantle2AUFRE · Australia
23Hong Kong1HKHKG · Hong Kong
24Yokohama1JPYOK · Japan
25Nagoya, Aichi1JPNGO · Japan
26Osaka1JPOSA · Japan
27Busan1KRPUS · South Korea
28Kaohsiung1TWKHH · Taiwan
29Port Klang (Pelabuhan Klang)1MYPKG · Malaysia
30Bintulu, Sarawak1MYBTU · Malaysia

Data sourced from the seafarerindex datasets — see /sources for methodology. Rankings update each time the underlying data is refreshed.