Exports of Colombian coal could about to become more competitive after the country’s main port handled its first ever Newcastlemax.

Oldendorff’s 207,562-dwt Lydia Oldendorff (built 2015) recently became the largest vessel to load coal at Puerto Bolivar, Colombia.

The 300-metre-long vessel, one of about 65 Newcastlemaxes in the Oldendorff fleet, was said to have been loaded on a trial cargo draft of 17.5