After an extensive delay, March saw the floating of first 53,000dwt bulk carrier in the 'Diamond' series to be built for Chennai-based Goodearth Maritime Limited (GML) at the building dock of Hindustan Shipyard Limited.rnThis is the biggest vessel ever floated out in the history of HSL from the coveredrnbuilding dock. The double-hull ship is 190m long and offers cargo handling capacity of 65,900m~3. It will be able to achieve speeds up to 15.2knots. Local reports said that the ship was likely to be delivered to GML by the end of the third quarter, 2009. The ships had originally been contracted with delivery envisaged as from summer 2007 onwards.
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