Search

This month we meet Adrian Scales, Head of Nautical who joined Brookes Bell in 2007 after 18 years at sea.  Here we ask him a bit more about his career and life outside work. I was born in

In recent years, the maritime industry has undergone a drastic transformation as container ships balloon in size. The construction of these Ultra-Large Container Vessels (ULCVs) capable of

What is metallurgy? Let’s start with a definition. What exactly is meant by the term metallurgy? At its simplest, metallurgy is the study of the exploitation of metals. Metallurgy is an ancient

With global trade still carried overwhelmingly by sea, shipbuilding remains an industry intrinsically linked to global commerce. Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, shipbuilding companies

With approximately 90% of the world’s goods transported by sea, it is no understatement to say that container shipping is one of the most vital parts of global modern commerce, transporting

If you’ve even a passing interest in modern industrial processes and manufacturing, you’ve no doubt heard about materials science and the associated discipline of materials testing. But, if you want

If you read any form of maritime media, you will undoubtedly encounter a regular supply of stories about robotics and digitalisation.  If you believe all the latest proclamations from

Speak to anyone with even a passing involvement or interest in the maritime industry, and the words ‘SS Edmund Fitzgerald’ will immediately conjure up memories of an incident which has gone down in

Our scientist, Tim Moss, opened the evening with the hot topic of mass GMO cargo rejections worldwide. While the idea of GMO cargo being rejected is not a new one, the ever increasing scale of the