A German report said Nordic, owned by Russian businessman Vitaly Yusufov, isone of 30 companies to have expressed an interest in P+S.

The yard’s administrator Berthold Brinkmann said half of these are financialinvestment funds.

He is hoping to have bids in by the end of October.

On 1 November, insolvency proceedings begin as temporary funding expires,putting at risk 1,800 jobs at two yards in Stralsund and Wolgast.

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