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Q1. Name various Statutory Certificates and Documents to be carried on board container ships giving reference to the conventions and justify for their requirement. (20)

Q5. India, one of the world's five major ship recycling countries, has acceded to the IMO Hong Kong Convention, the treaty that will set global standards for safe and environmentally sound hip recycling.

Discuss the key features of "The Hong Kong International convention for the safe and environmentally sound Recycling of Ships''.

Q3. Explain the following with reference to MARPOL Annex-VI

a) Ozone depleting substances and its emissions control. (5)

b) Volatile Organic and its emissions control. (5)

c) NOx emissions and its control from ships. (5)

d) NOX technical file. (5)

Q4. Explain the following

a) SEEMP I, II, III (5)

b) PSSA (5)

c) EEXI & CII (5)

d) SOPEP (5)

Q5. With Reference to the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) 2006, discuss the requirements for seafarers regarding:

a) Entitlement to leave (7)

b) On-board and on-shore complaint procedures (7)

c) Safety and health education of young seafarers (6)

Q6. As Second Engineer of a new ship,

a) Prepare standing orders for all future bunkering operations onboard. (7)

b) State why it is very important to obtain a representative sample of heavy fuel bunkers taken. (7)

c) Briefly discuss Marpol sample, In-use sample and on board Sample. (6)

Q3: With reference to Regulation 12 of SOLAS Chapter XII, dealing with Water Level Detection and Alarm Systems to spaces:

A. Type of ships Water Level Detection and Alarm System is required to be installed. (7)

B. Brief description of such installation. (6)

C. Requirements with respect to detection system. (4)

D. Requirements with respect to an alarm system. (3)

Q6. Steering system failure has caused shipping casualties and oil pollution. Discuss

a) The causes of such failure (8)

b) The precaution necessary in design, operation, and maintenance of these systems. (6)

c) Requirements on tankers, which was made mandatory after the shipping casualty. (6)

Q9. (a) Discuss International Maritime Organization (IMO) Data Collection System (DCS) for fuel oil consumption of ships covering following:

(i) Applicability of ship size (GT)

(ii) When the requirement of Data Collection System (DCS) entered into force;

(iii) What data required to collect ship;

(iv) The aggregated data is submitted to who and when (frequency) to submit;

(v) Relevance of SEEMP pertaining to Data Collection System (DCS)

(b) List out the main differences between the EU Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) regulation and International Maritime Organization (IMO) Data Collection System (DCS).