Editorial

At the recently held regular meeting of the journal`s Publishing Council the participants agreed that in the past period the journal fulfilled the expectations and requirements of the publisher and of the co-publishing companies. However, a common attitude was expressed that the journal should get more oriented to more up-to-date forms of publishing, such as the on-line version, and that the financial means for accomplishing that could be ensured by cutting down of the print version costs.

This and other valuable ideas have set serious assignments in front of the edito­rial staff. Their accomplishment will considerably and almost directly depend on the solution of the problem of the large Croatian shipyards. This will dictate the Journal`s future financial model and contents concept, havmg in mind that Brodogradnja is the only Croatian publication fully dedicated to ali aspects of the shipbuilding activity in the country and abroad.

Finally, let us say a few words about the actual position of the Croatian ship­building industry. The second round privatisation contest of the large Croatian shipyards is closed, and now the submitted tenders are being analysed by „relevant“ state administration. For the current issue of the journal we could not manage to provide any contribution expressing opinions and attitudes of competent personalities from relevant ministries, shipyards or companies that have expressed interest in purchasing these shipyards. Anyway, tili the end of this calendar year we will try to present to our readers in addition to the achieved high level of scientific and marketing content of the journal, also the most important privatisation and restructuring results. Of course, we certainly do hope that these processes will be carried out in a positive direction, as it is expected by the shipbuilding community and the general public of this country.