Translation roadmap

Seafarer Index ships in English. UI strings have been translated into Filipino (Tagalog) where there is a working translation, and a handful of country guides have been written directly in the seafarer's home language. Everything else is English-only. We will not auto-translate — bad translations of safety and legal content harm the people who need it most.

UI translations

These are the locales for which the site chrome (header, navigation, common controls) has a hand-checked translation. Pick a language from the switcher in the footer.

• English (en)supported
• Filipino (Tagalog) (tl)supported

Country guides translated to home language

Country-specific career guides have been written directly in the home language for the largest seafarer-supplying nations. These are not machine translations of the English guide — they were written for the local context.

• Filipino — PhilippinesTagalog
  /tl/seafarer-guides/ph
• हिन्दी — IndiaHindi
  /hi/seafarer-guides/in
• Русский — RussiaRussian
  /ru/seafarer-guides/ru
• Українська — UkraineUkrainian
  /uk/seafarer-guides/ua
• Bahasa Indonesia — IndonesiaIndonesian
  /id/seafarer-guides/id
• 中文 — ChinaChinese (Simplified)
  /zh/seafarer-guides/cn

Want to contribute?

If you are a working seafarer, a maritime educator, or a professional translator with maritime experience, we welcome help with: (1) extending UI string coverage for Hindi, Russian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Chinese, or Spanish; (2) reviewing the existing Filipino UI translation; (3) writing country guides in additional home languages (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Romania, Myanmar are gaps). Reach out via the issues tracker on GitHub or the email on /about.