As digitisation within the shipping industry becomes more advanced with a good proportion of the world fleet now required to have Electronic Chart Display Information System (ECDIS) and a Voyage Data…
Our International Coating Scientists have years of experience working in the marine sector, delivering independent advice to clients that complies with current legislation thus reducing maintenance…
Liquefaction risks and associated mechanisms of cargo shift remain of major concern to the safe shipping in bulk of Group A cargoes. They continue to present significant hazards and expense to the…
Shipments involving carriage of agricultural materials by sea are at risk of becoming infested by storage pests. Brookes Bell Scientists are experienced in identifying the source of insect and rodent…
Grains and oilseeds are shipped in large quantities on bulk carriers. Whenever a cargo is carried by sea it is sampled and tested for a number of quality parameters which must be correct for it to…
Fertilisers, as raw materials or granulated for direct use in agriculture, are globally traded in a vast range of compositions, appearances and as both bulk (IMSBC Code) and packaged (IMDG Code)…
Edible oils of a plant or animal origin are shipped in liquid form on tankers. Deterioration of these oils in storage and during carriage can have a number of causes, and delay can be a significant…
Brookes Bell’s state of the art PEC (Pulsed Eddy Current) array scanners, in the hands of our in-house NDT specialists, can rapidly test substrates with a sweeping probe width of 450mm, penetrating…
Dominic Bell is a Master Mariner with command experience. He joined Brookes Bell in January 2020 from a position as Marine Manager with Seatruck Ferries Ltd. During his 19 years at sea, he sailed on…
