In recent days, the Dutch shipbuilding group Damen has filed with the Court of Constance for bankruptcy in the the Romanian shipyard Damen Shipyards Mangalia, of in which it owns 49% of the capital. The remaining 51% of the company's share capital The company has been held by the Romanian government since 2018 through Santierul Naval 2 Mai, a wholly-owned company controlled by the Ministry of Economy, while the management of the of the plant is entrusted to Damen ( of 23 March and 28 July 2018). Last summer, Damen demonstrated the intention to leave the Mangalia company, also appealing to the International Arbitration Centre of the Chamber Austrian Economic Association of Vienna in order to obtain the resolution of the of the 2018 agreement with the Bucharest government ( of 7 August 2023).

Meanwhile, more than a thousand of the 1,500 workers at the shipyard in Mangalia have been placed on technical unemployment since Monday due to the absence of work in the plant.