The Split shipyard today launched the last ship in its order book, the spokeswoman for the Split-based Brodosplit company, Ivanka Mihaljevic, said on Tuesday.
The yard launched a 65,061-tonne tanker for the transport of crude oil andpetroleum products.
This is the fourth vessel from the P-MAX programme ordered by a Swedishclient.
Brodosplit can not receive any more orders until the European Commissionokays a plan for the shipyard's restructuring.
The company will soon sign contracts to build nine ships, after the EuropeanCommission approves its restructuring programme, which could happen in a weekor two, the president of the independent union of Brodosplit workers, ZvonkoSegvic, said last Thursday after a meeting at the Croatian economy ministry.
On 17 January, the Commission said that its decision or opinion on plans forthe restructuring of the Croatian state-owned shipyards should not be expectedin the coming days, adding that it needed some additional information on theplans which the European Union's executive arm described as incomplete.
Officials in Brussels said then that the European Commission would not makeany decision or publish any position on Croatian shipyards' restructuring plansin the coming days. They added that the Commission was continuing to work withthe Croatian authorities on this matter.
There are no timelines for final conclusions on the restructuring plans,although the Croatian Competition Agency and the Commission are doing theirbest to improve the plans and adjust them to state aid rules, the spokeswomanfor the European Enlargement Commissioner, Natasha Butler, said then.
