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The expert that was brought to Malta was involved in another Shipyard that closed down

Both the Minister responsible for the Shipyard, as well as the Malta Shipyards Company that managed the Shipyard, are doing everything possible for the public not to know the true facts about the engagement of the Marketing Executive, Graham Crouser, for three years, and his mysterious departure after only six months, and the disastrous contract that he negotiated for the conversion of the Fairmount, that has caused enormous losses to the Shipyard.

This was stated to l-Orizzont by the Campaign for National Independence (CNI).

The CNI stated that it found that the story of Graham Crouser is more mysterious than it had appeared till today, because it happens that before he was brought to Malta, he was involved with another Shipyard, that of the company Cammell Laird of Birkenhead, in Merseyside, England, which also lost great millions due to a ship conversion contract, the Costa Classica, of the Italian company Costa Crociere of Genoa.

The CNI came to know that the Birkenhead Shipyard of the Cammell Laird company, in 2000, entered into a contract of £50 million to lengthen the ship Costa Classica by cutting it in half, build a new piece and attach it to the front and back part of the ship.

The agreement was that payment was to be made after the work was done, about mid-March 2001.

The Cammel Laird entered into great expenses to prepare itself and its workers for this conversion work, and had built the new middle piece of the ship.

But in December 2000, the company Costa Crociere suspended the execution of the contract, with the consequence that the Cammell Laird Shipyard lost great millions, had to discharge hundreds of workers and a few months after, stopped operating.

The CNI has information that Graham Crouser was employed in the marketing section at the Cammell Laird Shipyard at the time the conversion contract for the Costa Crociere was negotiated.

What he had to do with the negotiations of the contract conditions for the payment to be made after the work was finished is not known.

But it is certain that he knew what are the difficulties and dangers of a big ship conversion contract, when he was later appointed to the office of Marketing Executive of the Malta Shipyards.

Instead of being very careful for the Fairmount contract conditions, Crouser excluded from the negotiations all the Maltese managers that should have taken part in the negotiations of such a big contract.

He accepted bad conditions for the Shipyard, among them, that he agreed to the amount of ‘liquidated damages’ that the Shipyard will pay in case the work is not completed as agreed, and agreed on the price for all the work which did not even cover all the expenses for the material used by the Shipyard and the many payments that the Shipyard had to pay to private contractors.

Because of this disastrous agreement made by Graham Crouser, the Shipyard ended up by losing great millions, so great, that neither the Minister responsible for the Shipyard nor the Shipyard Executive Management have the courage to say how great was the loss suffered by the Shipyard due to the Fairmount conversion contract.

The Cammell Laird Shipyard in Birkenhead had to stop operating because of the Costa Classica ship conversion contract, while the Malta Shipyard will have to be sold because of the Fairmount ship conversion contract.

The two Shipyards suffered losses in the two ship conversion contracts in which Graham Crouser was involved.

The CNI knows that many are asking who had engaged Graham Crouser as Marketing Executive for the Shipyard, if he knew whether he had the capacity for that office and what experience he had on ship conversion work?

They also ask whether the Minister responsible for the Shipyard had approved the bad conditions of the disastrous contract that Crouser negotiated for the Shipyard?

It is said that Crouser was allowed to leave Malta only six months after having been engaged for three years.

Who allowed him to leave without holding him responsible for his actions?

The Maltese people shall have to make good for the millions suffered by the Shipyard due to the Fairmount contract.

Do the people have no right to know the whole truth, by means of an independent public inquiry, as demanded by the General Workers’ Union (GWU) and by the Shipyard workers that the Government is afraid to do?

Or will the Government be satisfied that all that happened to the Birkenhead Shipyard and its workers who have lost their jobs, the same will happen to the Malta Shipyard and many of the workers who will leave from their job with early retirement schemes?

The CNI understands that the Crouser’s link with the Birkenhead Shipyard that stopped operating, increased the need for an independent public inquiry as is being demanded by the GWU, which no responsible Government should desist from making?

If yes, help CNI in its work so that the majority of the people would want to get rid of European Union rule.