India's Great Eastern Shipping is planning to raise another INR 10bn ($150m) through a securities sale.

The board will decide on the issue at a meeting on 4 May.

The non-convertible debentures will be placed privately during the year.

This follows the successful sale of INR 3bn ($45.95m) of such securities earlier this month.

That debt carried 8.85% interest.

The owner has been splashing its cash on second-hand vessels in recent weeks.

It said in March it had agreed to acquire an LPG vessel of about 36,567 cbm built in 1996.