(Interview with Tiberiu Vărzar, Plasmaserv CEO)Reporter: In two years you will mark 20 years since your company has been active in the market in our country. How is the balance of 20 years of activity presented?
The Romanian Corvette Program Saga (Part Two)
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 27
Romania s Damen Galati shipyard (Source: Yellow and Finch Publishers)
Post-Communist Romania’s first national warship-building program a multi-role corvette resides in legal limbo since being launched in November 2016, with none of the four planned vessels having been laid yet. After an initial attempt by the authorities to directly award the program to the domestic shipyard Damen Galați (owned by the Dutch firm Damen Group), a change in government derailed the whole deal. More than a year passed before Romania restarted the corvette program, this time opening it up to a competitive process (see Part One in EDM, February 10).