When Ritesh Mehra, 43, enlisted for a four-month stint as captain on a liquid gas tanker last July, he never expected to be stranded at sea until spring, reports The Hindu.
Ship Docked Outside“Twice it has happened that the ports are not allowing crew change,” Mehra told Reuters via Zoom from the bridge of the 80,000 tonne ship docked outside the Indian port of Haldia.
“My family won’t trust me any more. I have been giving them dates when I would come home from December.”
Mehra, who has 20 years’...
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