Fifteen companies have expressed interest in acquiring Poland's financially-beleaguered shipyards in Szczecin and Gdynia since the European Commission gave Poland an extra two months to revise privatisation plans that it declared "unacceptable"rnAnd rumours that Roman Abram-ovich, owner of Chelsea football club, might also enter the bidding excited the Polish media last week.rnHowever, reports that the Russian billionaire planned to acquire Ukraine's steel holding Industrial Union Donbass (ISD), owner of the Gdansk shipyard, were given short shrift, with a number of experts dismissing them as"media speculation" adding that half of the latest offers for the yards were also unviable.
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