Highlighting a 17-month ordeal suffered by his crew at the port of Great Yarmouth, the master of the Malaviya Twenty (built 2004) has called for speedier resolutions to similar abandonment cases.

Captain Nikash Rastogi spoke to TradeWinds shortly after a lawyer last week finally secured a court order to sell the vessel, paving the way for the remaining members of his crew onboard the ship to be paid and return home to India.