ZAGREB, October 30, 2018 – Uljanik management board chairman Gianni Rossanda handed in his resignation to the shipyard’s Supervisory Board on Tuesday, according to the information provided by the company, while the strike committee leader Boris Cerovac said that the new supervisory board had spoken with seven possible candidates for Rossanda’s successor.
“On 30th October 2018. Mr. Gianni Rossanda submitted his irrevocable resignation to Supervisory Board as President of Management Board of ULJANIK d.d., with its effect from the day of 31st October 2018,” Uljanik said in a notice released on the Zagreb Stock Exchange.
Cerovac confirmed for HINA that the newly appointed Supervisory Board at Uljanik had on Tuesday spoken with possible candidates for the chairman in the new management board that would take control of the company upon the dissolution of the incumbent board. According to Cerovvac, most of the candidates come from Uljanik.
In the meantime the shipyard workers entered their second week of industrial action after not receiving their September wages. “Unfortunately we don’t have any good news and don’t have any information in that regard. Wages still haven’t been paid, and we don’t know when they will be. I tried to contact the finance director however, he is not answering,” Cerovac said.
He confirmed that shop steward Samir Hadžić would chair the supervisory board for the time being while later that position would be taken up by Nenad Kapuralin until the next general assembly. Kapuralin was elected to the supervisory board at the last general assembly on October 16.
Economy Minister Darko Horvat said earlier in the day that Uljanik’s management board would submit a new restructuring plan within ten days which would not include ships whose orders have already been cancelled and that the ministry then would analyse the plan within three or four days.
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