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The age of battery-powered shipping has taken a step closer to reality this week with the announcement that China’s Cosco Shipping is to build and operate two 700 TEU electric containerships on the…

Image credit - Wallenius Marine, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons As efforts continue to reduce the carbon footprint of global shipping…

Ukraine On 24th February Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine, sparking an immediate surge in oil and gas prices across the world. Within days, both major oil trading benchmarks had risen…

Brookes Bell has been offering non-destructive testing (NDT) services for some time to identify and assess the extent of corrosion on the deck of a vessel as well as a range of other flat steel…

These cargoes are covered by the IMSBC Code, cargoes that are liable to liquefy are listed as Group A (or A and B) in the Code. However, over the years there has been considerable confusion about…

Nick Haslam, principal master mariner has contributed to the Nautical Institute’s latest publication: Guidelines for the Maritime Expert Witness. The new book provides invaluable assistance and…

Nick Haslam, Principal Master Mariner has also recently taken part in a panel discussion with the International Salvage Union (ISU).  The ISU Associate Members' Day was a face-to-face event held…

Adrian Scales, Brookes Bell’s Director of Nautical is currently working with our fire expert Lea McDonald as well as various other parties including the UK SOSREP and the UK’s National Fire Chief’s…

Brookes Bell is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the opening of its Singapore office later this year. The celebration could not come at a better time, according to Brookes Bell’s Director of Asia,…

This month we meet Luke Swords, one of the NDT technicians at the Brookes Bell Lab on the outskirts of Liverpool, UK. What does your day job entail? My current role is Advanced NDT technician,…