‘Yesterday late, the management of Uljanik submitted an offer expressing interest in participating in the public call and interest in purchasing the shipyard,’ reported Minister of Economy Đuro Popijač to the Government yesterday. And what did the Government do then? Did anyone ask where the management of the state shipyard got the money? No. Popijač only announced that in the coming days it would be clarified whether the offer from Uljanik’s management meets the criteria of the competition, what the Government’s interest is, and whether this offer will fit into the conditions of the European Commission.
There are no doubts about the payment capability of the long-time managers of the state shipyard, therefore, there are none. No doubts. No questions.
The management of Uljanik consists of only two men, Karlo Radolović and Anton Brajković. For these two, it is evidently so normal in the Government that they have money to buy Uljanik as it is to say ‘good day’. And not only for the Government. It is also completely normal for the Metalworkers’ Union. There is nothing strange to the union members in the offer of Radolović and Brajković. The only thing that is unusual for them, which they are somewhat surprised by, is that they are appearing as interested parties for the purchase of the shipyard in the capacity of Uljanik’s Management and not as majority owners of the company Uljanik plovidba. The unions would prefer that the parent company, the shipyard Uljanik, be purchased by its subsidiary rather than Radolović and Brajković as individuals. And the only thing that concerns the union members, in case the duo Radolović-Brajković buys the shipyard, is whether they will bring new jobs to the shipyard and secure the market or destroy it. And why would they do that?
