Gazprom was one of two Russian investors identified to have expressed an interest in purchasing Germany's insolvent Wadan Yards in Rostock-Warnemünde and Wismar.
According to Vinamaso, metal workers' union IG Metal Küste's representative Rüdiger Klein last week attended the first creditors' meeting in which it seemed that there were many positive signs that a buyer would be found before the end of the northern summer.