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With a career spanning more than two decades, Michael Banning is one of Brookes Bell’s Managing Marine Engineers with a specialism in marine fuels and fuel analysis.  Michael’s journey began…

Bunker fuel quality has become increasingly significant, especially since the implementation of stricter sulphur regulations in 2020.  These regulations reduced the permissible sulphur content…

Since the last revision of shipping’s go-to fuel quality standard ISO 8217 in 2017, the marine fuel landscape has been transformed.  Now a new revision, the standard’s seventh edition since…

We recently hosted our first Brookes Bell Expo at the Yacht Club of Greece in Piraeus. The event enabled us to showcase the breadth of our services and to catch-up with colleagues and clients from…

We are please to welcome the following new starters to Brookes Bell: Chris Ellyatt – Managing Scientist (London) Michael Banning – Managing Marine Engineer, Fuel Specialist (Liverpool)…

Dr Bryan Ward is a Managing Scientist at Brookes Bell but describes his role as more like the “Columbo of fuel chemistry”. Bryan conducted a Masters in Computational Chemistry in 2010 at Heriot-Watt…

As one of the world’s leading scientific and technical consultancies to the maritime industry, Brookes Bell has a global presence; and it’s a presence which is well established with the company…

Lloyd’s Register has awarded the world’s first Recognised Enhanced Antifouling Type Approval to Jotun for its SeaQuantum Skate antifouling coating, alongside type approval certification for Jotun’s…

One evening in September 1894 a tragedy occurred on Lake Huron in the Great Lakes. A tragedy which led to the loss of five lives. However, it wasn’t until a breakthrough discovery by a team of…

Following a number of high-profile car carrier fires in 2023, Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MoL) is deploying an AI-based system to improve fire safety on its own fleet of car carriers.  At…