Italian telecommunications contractor Prysmian Powerlink could face "exemplary" damages after a UK High Court ruled it had used a Norwegian company's cable-layer design to save money on a newbuilding at shipbuilder Vard.
Prysmian took delivery of the 170-loa cable-layer Leonard Da Vinci this year from the Norwegian yard group.
The Italian company had contracted Salt Ship Design to exclusively design the newbuilding in 2017 for a price that eventually rose to €2.43m
