INTERVIEW: Mr. José Francisco González Viñas - President of the Spanish Ship Builders' Association (Unión Española de Constructores Navales). After the annus horribilis of last year, which saw shipyards sign just five contracts in Galicia, José Francisco González Viñas, President of Barreras and of the Spanish Ship Builders' Association, faces 2010 in "moderately optimistic" mood. He assures that commercial activity in shipbuilding has slowly been reactivated and trusts that shipyards will begin to clinch the first contracts between now and the summer. "The worst is over," he says. - The shipbuilding contracts signed last year can be counted on the digits of one hand. Can you remember a similar drought?
- Yes, I can. Regardless of economic crisis, ship building has always been cyclical. I do not remember any period when this ac