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Nearly a year ago, Brookes Bell opened a brand new high-end laboratory.  The Lab is our 8,000sq ft facility on the Wirral, Nr Liverpool in the UK.  It includes advanced testing and…

Brookes Bell’s metallurgy services cover the full life cycle evaluation of metallic components and their constituent materials. By applying our team’s expert knowledge and industry leading technology…

Scientist, Dr Karwei So, was first to talk and outlined some of the ongoing problems the team has encountered with hazardous cargoes.  Karwei talked about a recent experience of chemical cargoes…

John Gibson, Brookes Bell Director of Asia took part in a virtual ‘Spotlight on Experts’ conference organised by the Asia Pacific Institute of Experts (APIEx)and the Singapore Institute of…

As anyone who has examined concrete structures that have been shore-side or at sea for long periods of time will tell you, the corrosion of rebar is a major issue. Now, however, a team of researchers…

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…