{"id":3218,"date":"2025-06-06T14:32:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/bureau-veritas\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:32:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:32:53","slug":"bureau-veritas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/bureau-veritas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureau Veritas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Bureau Veritas, now a global leader in testing, inspection, and certification, was originally founded in Antwerp?<\/p>\n<p>In June 1828, Antwerp-based insurance broker Auguste Morel, together with Alexandre Delehaye and Louis van den Broeck, established the Bureau de Renseignements pour les Assurances Maritimes. Their goal? To provide insurers with up-to-date information on ships and maritime risks. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative quickly gained momentum and became a trusted name in the maritime industry. In 1829, it was renamed Bureau Veritas, and the first register\u2014listing 10,000 ships\u2014was published. <\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: Bureau Veritas was even mentioned in three novels by Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869), The Mysterious Island (1874), and The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Bureau Veritas, now a global leader in testing, inspection, and certification, was originally founded in Antwerp? In June 1828, Antwerp-based insurance broker Auguste Morel, together with Alexandre Delehaye and Louis van den Broeck, established the Bureau de Renseignements pour les Assurances Maritimes. Their goal? To provide insurers with up-to-date information on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abambvt.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}