Emerging risks of shipping lithium-ion batteries, used in everything from mobile phones to electric cars and buses, will be addressed at a Melbourne forum on Wednesday, July 26. 

When mishandled or mistreated the batteries pose risks of fires at high temperatures. Their use is increasing as people embrace greener technology. 

The Melbourne Marine Insurance Forum will feature international experts Karwei So and Tim Moss on the Challenges with Shipping Electric Vehicles and Possible Solutions. 

Dr So is a managing scientist based in Hong Kong. Joining Brookes Bell in 2019, she advises on the safe carriage of Group A cargoes and investigates the cause of damage to commodities including grains, liquid cargoes, containerised goods, and bagged chemicals. Group A cargoes are defined as cargoes which may liquefy if shipped at a moisture content more than their transportable moisture limit. She provides advice on laboratory analyses for contaminated cargoes and quality analysis.  

Dr Moss conducted PhD research in Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne before becoming study director at AgrEvo, a boutique agrochemical company which later became Aventis (later Sanofi). Nearly 24 years ago Dr Moss began working as a cargo scientist at the old Jarret Kirman offices which was then Brookes Bell Jarrett Kirman (near London) and is now Director of Science Asia for Brookes Bell, based in Singapore.  

As a scientist at Brookes Bell, Dr Moss travels to more than 50 countries, attends hundreds of vessels and gives evidence in arbitrations and hearings. 

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