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Jan De Nul asks the Uljanik yard the reimbursement for the advance payments poured for the construction for a dredge
The ship was launched on 26 August
April 24, 2019
The Dutch Jan De Nul has demanded to the Croatian ship yard Uljanik the reimbursement of the advance payments poured for the construction of the Willem Van Rubroeck dredge. The ship, long 151,3 meters, wide 36,0 meters and in a position to accommodating 67 people, was launched 26th August, but 28th January the Luxemburger Dredging and Maritime Management KNOWS (DMM), the holding ones that stops the entire capital of Jan De Nul, had communicated to the shipbuilding society the decision, based on the contractual terms, to proceed to the resolution of the contract as Uljanik could not have delivered the dredge in the established terms.
The next negotiations between the parts have not had outcome in order to proceed however to the completion of the ship in the Croatian yard or, in alternative, a foreign ship yard, and Jan De Nul has communicated the decision to cancel the contract. Uljanik has specified that the contract obligates the Croatian shipbuilding society to reimburse the prepayments already carried out from the outsourcer within a period of seven days.
The decision of the Dutch company aggravates the difficulties of the Croatian ship yard, that it is object of a under way procedure of failure 15th April.
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