The 24.7m long workboat and waste collection vessel Nicolae Zeicu was for the Constanta Port Administration and for service in that port.

Reports said the Nicolae Zeicu hull was built in Poland, but Fassmer did not report the origin of the Marina hull.

Both contracts were won over Europe-wide tenders.

Marina , with a steel hull and superstructures but with a deckhouse of aluminium, is based on a series of identical 30 m sounding vessels built by Fassmer for a number of authorities throughout Germany.

She is 6.5m wide, draws max 2m and displaces 108 tons. Top speed is 13.5 knots developed from a single 701kW, 1,940 revs/min Volvo main engine over ZF 1900 gearing. The 1,300mm propeller is from Piening.

Marina carries a crew of five plus four scientists. Equipped with modern scientific gear, the vessel will perform depth, sediment and water research tasks in the Black Sea and Danube Delta.

Nicolae Zeicu , financed by the European Investment Bank EIB and Romania, is 6m wide, draws 2.2m max and displaces 134 tons. She has a top speed of 10 knots and a crew of three and is powered by two Caterpillar engines each of 287kW, at 1,800revs/min which drive two Schottel rudder propeller units Type SRP 170.

Her oil combat equipment is a Lamor LBL Bow Collector and she also has a 50m boom.

Four oil waste loading tanks carry total 110m 3.