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HSE: Motor Failure Caused Drill Rig to Drop a Blowout Preventer

Published Jun 15, 2026 8:29 PM by The Maritime Executive

The drawworks on the drill rig Deepsea Atlantic dropped a blowout preventer and 400 feet of riser onto the seabed in an uncontrolled lifting failure in April, all because of a single motor failure, according to the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE). On April 18, Deepsea Atlantic's crew was running a blowout preventer riser on Drawworks A, one of two identical drawworks on the vessel. At about 2100 hours, one motor on the drawworks tripped, followed shortly after by...

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offshore wind farm

Trump Administration Ends Appeal to Keep Moratorium on Wind Energy Leases

Published Jun 15, 2026 7:15 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday, June 15, entered a brief memorandum with a U.S. District Court of Appeals saying it was ending its appeal on a December 2025 court decision that struck down a Trump executive order placing a moratorium on reviewing applications for wind energy projects. The court accepted DOJ’s decision ending the appeals case and leaving the December 2025 decision in place. On his first day back in the White House, Donald Trump signed a slew...

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bulker to containership conversion

China Completes Largest Bulker-to-Container Vessel Conversion Project

Published Jun 15, 2026 6:27 PM by The Maritime Executive

The China Classification Society reports that a complex six-month conversion project was successfully completed, marking the largest conversion of a bulker into a containership. They are asserting that it was the first major conversion project involving an 80,000 dwt Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier into a cellular containership. The project began with the 2012-built bulker Chang Xin 66. The ship was a standard Kuangchi Delta bulker based on a design from Finland’s Deltamarin. The design concept for the class maximized cargo...

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Charting the Future

Published Jun 15, 2026 6:05 PM by Tony Munoz

"What comes next?" That's the big question ClassNK President & CEO Hayato Suga keeps asking, and it's something that every class society is facing as the pace of technological change accelerates and the role of classification evolves. His answer is straightforward: "We must go beyond being an accredited certification body and evolve into an organization that shapes the future." That's a tall order, but Suga is confident. Drawing on his 40 years of ClassNK experience, he says the shipping industry...

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Deepsea Atlantic (Geir Vinnes / VesselFinder)

HSE: Motor Failure Caused Drill Rig to Drop a Blowout Preventer

The drawworks on the drill rig Deepsea Atlantic dropped a blowout preventer and 400 feet of riser onto the seabed in an uncontrolled lifting failure in April, all because of a single motor failure, according to the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE). On April 18, Deepsea Atlantic's crew was running a blowout preventer riser on Drawworks A, one of two identical drawworks on the vessel. At about 2100 hours, one motor on the drawworks tripped, followed shortly after by...

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Shipbuilding

bulker to containership conversion

China Completes Largest Bulker-to-Container Vessel Conversion Project

The China Classification Society reports that a complex six-month conversion project was successfully completed, marking the largest conversion of a bulker into a containership. They are asserting that it was the first major conversion project involving an 80,000 dwt Kamsarmax dry bulk carrier into a cellular containership. The project began with the 2012-built bulker Chang Xin 66. The ship was a standard Kuangchi Delta bulker based on a design from Finland’s Deltamarin. The design concept for the class maximized cargo...

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Environment

ammonia dual-fuel gas carrier

First Ammonia Dual-Fuel Vessel Delivered to Exmar

The first newly built dual-fuel ammonia-fueled vessel, Antwerpen, has been officially delivered and went into service today, June 10, for the French division of Exmar. The pioneering ship is the first of a coming wave of deliveries and is seen as a critical step to accelerate the adoption of ammonia as a marine fuel across the wider shipping industry. Exmar, along with HD Hyundai, heralded the delivery of the vessel, the first of three due this year for Exmar, with...

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Business

Tobias Huuva is the Engineering Manager at Berg Propulsion.

How AI Can Support the Evolution of Marine Propulsion

Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating marine system innovation, but its value relies on strong engineering governance, structured data and clear processes, writes Tobias Huuva, Engineering Manager, Berg Propulsion Like other engineers, those focusing on marine propulsion find AI and machine learning (ML) increasingly useful for enhancing productivity and consistency in documentation, as well as enabling data-driven decisions over the system lifecycle. But as also experienced elsewhere, the extent of this usefulness depends on applying these tools with a clear engineering...

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