Brodosplit today delivered the "Palva" tanker to a Swedish client, the second of two tankers commissioned by the client. The ship was delivered 39 days before the deadline, the management board said, adding that last year's regular delivery of ships was continuing.
Speaking at a news conference in Split today, the leader of the Croatian Association of Trade Unions (HUS), Ozren Matijasevic, and the leader of the Brodosplit Independent Trade Union, Zvonko Segvic, urged the company's management board to act on the government's request and replace its chairman and member, Goran Vukasovic and Ante Luetic, after an investigation was launched into them on Wednesday.
Vukasovic and Luetic, together with Drago Macek, who brokered the disputed contracts, are charged with abusing their office and causing damage to the shipyard amounting to 4.7 million dollars, and with laundering the money.
Matijasevic warned that Brodosplit was in a sensitive position because of its reorganisation, which he said should be completed as soon as possible.
A plan for the restructuring of the shipyard has been sent to the European Union and the management is expected to complete social bargaining with trade unions by the end of February. This must be done by a new management board, and time is running out, Matijasevic said.