Brussels, 04/10/2010 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 4 October, the European Commission started a public consultation process to determine whether it should continue to apply the current state aid rules for shipbuilding or whether they should be amended or expire, as planned, at the end of 2011. The Commission commented that ship-building is one of the rare industries still subject to special state aid rules that allow aid that is not allowed under rules applying to other industries. The state...