Latest public seafarer signal
Crew welfare report linked to MSC ILLINOIS VII (IMO 9197545).
A submission to info@skipi.app and public reports tracing to the same community account describe a severe spinal injury and the later reported death of seafarer Сергей Тадынко. The signal is source-attributed and bound to the vessel by IMO; the circumstances, compensation claim, cause of death and any causal link remain unverified.
Read the signal, provenance and limitations →
Machine-readable: signal JSON · Seafarer feed · canonical vessel record.
How this index is built
Skipi aggregates open vacancy postings from public crewing channels and job boards worldwide. Each posting is parsed for rank, vessel type, declared salary and contract length, then grouped by a canonical taxonomy (22 ranks × 14 vessel types).
This issue is based on 3,169 vacancies collected on 15 June 2026. A bucket is published when it contains at least 5 postings (N ≥ 5 for ratings and mid-rank, N ≥ 10 for senior). Outliers above $25,000 / month are excluded as annual-figure misreads. 141 (rank × vessel type) pairs have comparable May 2026 numbers — see the mom_changes field in the JSON feed for full month-over-month deltas.
The numbers shown are median with a p25–p75 range — so the headline reflects the middle of the market, not the cheapest or most expensive contract. Direct-relationship hiring done by larger ship managers does not appear in public postings and is therefore not represented in this index.
Previous issue: May 2026 (JSON). Next issue: July 2026. Full methodology: /methodology.
