Search

What do you do if you become embroiled in an incident or dispute in a remote location?  You turn to Brookes Bell for help. We specialise in the remote management of incidents, using local…

The quality of bunker fuel is a perennial issue for many vessel owners, charterers and ships’ engineers alike. In fact, bunker fuel has sometimes been viewed as a ‘dumping ground’ for waste oil…

Quantity and quality disputes are a common occurrence in the carriage and transport of fuel cargoes. From the subtle variations in the characteristics of crude oils, to water contaminations and…

Under the provisions of Marpol Annex 2, the carriage and transportation of liquid chemicals, vegetable oils and other related products is a highly-specialised business. If you want to ensure you…

Brookes Bell has been at the forefront of changes in stability regulation, assisting both regulators with rule development and industry with their efficient implementation.  Our extensive…

Seakeeping is defined as ‘a measure of how well-suited a vessel is to conditions when underway’. As such, seakeeping is an important way of determining how suitable a vessel is for the safe…

Failure analysis Why did a piece of machinery, a component, or asset fail, or wear out prematurely? These are just a few of the questions that we seek to answer when you commission us to provide…

The transportation of corrosive cargoes or steel products at sea is not without its challenges.  Due to the environment in which these cargoes are transported, corrosion damage can be…

Ever since the International Maritime Organisation’s implementation of a 0.5% global sulphur cap on fuel content (from 1st January 2020), exhaust gas scrubber systems have become increasingly…

The engineering challenges of modern society often call for materials that can perform in the harshest of environments, and this invariably means that materials must meet the necessary quality…