Cargo consultancy
We attend over 4,000 cargo-related surveys each year, giving us industry-best insights into the causes and consequences of both, damage to cargo as well as damage caused by cargo.
We attend over 4,000 cargo-related surveys each year, giving us industry-best insights into the causes and consequences of both, damage to cargo as well as damage caused by cargo.
Each cargo has its own properties and reacts differently to contact with water, moisture, exposure to temperature, sunlight or gases emitted by other cargoes on board the vessel. For some other cargoes, such as containers and project cargo, the effect of the ship motions is relevant to cargo.
Our services include:
Involving all types of cargo, such as:
Our experts are experienced across a full range of solid bulk cargoes and equally well versed in the many ship types used in this trade.
We have decades of experience investigating a large variety of claims and incidents involving transport and storage of perishable goods.
Our CargoHandbook.com is the industry's bible on all cargo, with more than 1000 listed commodities.
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To meet the needs of tomorrow as well as today an increased importance should be placed on sustainability and climate resilience in submarine design.
Jake Rigby
Artificial intelligence has for decades been rumoured to revolutionise ship design and change the ways we work forever. However, apart from improving Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools, the creation of ship general arrangements is relatively the same as it was in the 1980s.
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The requirement to reduce maritime emissions in the next decade has brought this reality ever closer; it is not something to drop into the pending tray. If we do not make plans now, we stand little chance of even scratching the surface of the targets.
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One of the most significant challenges of warship procurement is the need to keep pace with technological developments and changing strategic contexts.
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Designing a vessel for a pioneering offshore wind project in Japan required BMT to work to new rules.
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At a time when progress in technologies provides only marginal gain in terms of reducing operating cost and environmental footprint, should the traditional ferry paradigm be challenged once more?