FastShip files for Chapter 11 protection

Roland K. Bullard II, president of Fastship and two affiliates, FastShip Atlantic and Thornycroft, Giles & Co. Inc., said “the combination of deal fatigue and the collapse of the global economy in 2008-2009 forced the debtors to abandon their original commercial business plan.”

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