The billionaire financier tells TradeWinds that both of the 158,000-dwt units are on schedule and will join the Connecticut-based shipowner’s fleet of 40 crude and product carriers this month and next despite talk to the contrary.
Shipbrokers say it was widely believed that Diamond S was closing in on a deal in which it would pay Samsung and Hyundai Heavy Industries to delay delivery of the Colorado and Frio until 2013 in anticipation of a gradual upturn in the spot market.
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