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April 2026 – Jan 2026

Q1. Bridge Navigation System Audit – your action as Chief Engineer?

Q2. Inertia Test? IMO mandated maneuvering tests at sea trial? Resolution No.

Q3. Air/Gas/Emission Test carried out at ship trial – explanation.

Q4. Test Bed – significance of all emission tests?

Q5. P&I – what protections and indemnities are provided?

Q6. MOC (Management of Change) in detail. MOC in emergency – who approves?

Q7. Debunkering – what entries and documents are required? Code no. and letter in ORB for the related entry.

Q8. Safe Manning – all involved documents and certificates.

Q9. How will you ensure Social Security for Engine Department as Chief Engineer?

Q10. Framo pump preparation for dry docking and performance check.

Q11. High density cargo – can we load? Where do you check that?

Q12. Docking plan – contents of it. (Also asked as "What sort docking plan made")

Q13. PSC – how inspection affects which criteria? (Don’t under question)

Q14. IMO slogans.

Q15. How to calculate paint required?

Q16. Technical specification of Ammonia.

Q17. Engine family vs group.

Q18. Which certificate indicates carriage of dangerous goods onboard?

Q19. Going with surveyor for close-up survey of ballast tanks – what particular checks will you carry out for which you need to make a report?

Q20. Correction, corrective action, preventive action – definition with example.

Q21. Emergency fire pump not working on Sunday, no spares, no workshop, vessel departs next day – your action as CE?

Q22. Which NOx applicable now? Which are the special areas? Unit of NOx?

Q23. In HCP (Hull Condition Program?) – what all checks for CE?

Q24. Types of PSC inspection. Difference between extended and expanded inspection?

Q25. What is CSR (Continuous Survey Record)? How many forms? Why form 3 required?

Q26. Which document indicates what certificates to be carried with respect to safety of vessel?

Q27. Cyber security – measures adopted, IMO steps towards it.

Q28. Principle of subrogation and cross questions.

Q29. Latest amendments in ISM. Correction, CA, PA, Non-conformity.

Q30. Classification society – Structural rules.

Q31. HART Protocol.

Q32. Alternate fuels – pros and cons, technical & operational requirements, cross questions.

Q33. Flag State exercises administrative, technical and social control – explain with examples.

Q34. Protocol and amendment (IMO convention process).

Q35. ShaPOLI – working principle, overriding authority, who does it, measures before overriding.

Q36. Ship registration procedure and requirements for shipowner to register ship in India.

Q37. IMO GHG strategy – Decarbonisation. (also 2023 GHG strategy)

Q38. SOLAS Chapter 12 (Additional safety measures for bulk carriers).

Q39. MARPOL Annex 5 – what is special about b/c? (Also cover IMSBC code)

Q40. Ballast water tank inspection – focus on coating and corrosion check.

Q41. Running generator frequency fluctuating.

Q42. Initial survey and Renewal survey – scope (difference).

Q43. Documents required to carry dangerous cargo on bulk carrier.

Q44. ISO related documents on board ship.

Q45. Propeller removed – as CE what will you check before fitment.

Q46. Fuel consumption increased – action as CE.

Q47. External auditor gave you MNC and left – what will you do as CE.

Q48. BWTS D2 standard. (also "BWTS complete regarding D2 standard and sampling")

Q49. MOC as per ISM.

Q50. Green, Blue, Grey and White Hydrogen – what are they?

Q51. Safety culture – how will you implement it onboard your ship?

Q52. Bunkered fuel, after 3/4/15 days analysis shows 0.55% sulphur – your actions as CE (no other fuel).

Q53. New 3rd Engineer joined, port stay 12 hours – your action as CE.

Q54. Old vessel going for scrap, built before HKC, no IHM – how to make Inventory of Hazardous Material.

Q55. You joined a ship and engine is new to you – how to take over from old CE.

Q56. Civil Liability Conventions.

Q57. Loadicator – uses and what it does. (also "function, stresses, sensors")

Q58. Container ship lost 30 containers from starboard side and listed to port – your actions as CE.

Q59. Going to dry dock – how to prepare for cargo system job.

Q60. Vessel out of dry dock, pollution happens – what is applied and why in detail.

Q61. Ballast tank with surveyor – what to report (not all checks).

Q62. How to prepare a 30-year-old vessel for Hong Kong Convention – practical steps as CE (not IHM 1,2,3).

Q63. Load diagram in % – why.

Q64. Continual improvement.

Q65. Types of charter party – what shipowner is responsible for in BBC (Bareboat Charter).

Q66. Marine insurance principles – what is insurable interest.

Q67. How conventions are made in IMO.

Q68. Safety document as per IMO carried by ship.

Q69. As CE, at unloading you see a 2-foot crack on side shell above waterline – what to do.

Q70. Main engine crosshead bearing survey – preparation.

Q71. Unit of EEDI and EEOI.

Q72. PSC Code 30, 17, 15 – meaning.

Q73. How many classification society surveys are there?

Q74. Definition of "new ship" as per any convention.

Q75. What all codes applicable for chemical tanker?

Q76. Discharge criteria for chemical tanker.

Q77. How to reduce CII in way of cargo related work.

Q78. EEDI and EEOI – difference, and what is not in fuel consumption part for EEDI that is there for EEOI.

Q79. Where mentioned about safe manning document?

Q80. How class suspended, withdrawn, and automatic suspension of class.

Q81. In ME lube oil shore analysis report – what will you check very first after getting report.

Q82. Wall wash procedure – which chemical to use.

Q83. Liner crack, new liner fitted, vessel sailed – duty of CE.

Q84. ISGOTT and the parties to it.

Q85. ODME – input and output values.

Q86. Load diagram for variable pitch propeller (Controllable Pitch Propeller – CPP).

Q87. KN, GZ curves – damage stability.

Q88. NH3 issues in main engine combustion (Ammonia as fuel).

Q89. QMS onboard – controlled and uncontrolled measures.

Q90. Boiler pressure during cargo operation for tanker is high, during sailing low – reasons.

Q91. Documents required for vessel to sail (not certificates) – difference between documents and certificates.

Q92. OWS malfunction during trying out – action.

Q93. How to calculate bunker for next 15 days.

Q94. IMO strategy to reduce GHG emissions (short, mid, long term targets).

Q95. How many types of marine casualty as per IMO.

Q96. IWS – in detail (In-Water Survey).

Q97. IACS – in detail, names of all members.

Q98. Running AE frequency fluctuating at night – 2/E calls, action as CE.

Q99. Which marine fuel has highest carbon index.

Q100. Unseaworthy vs unsafe ship – difference.

Q101. Difference between Statutory certificates, Class certificates, and Mandatory certificates.

Q102. What is not in fuel consumption part when calculating EEDI which is there in EEOI? (repeat of Q78)

Q103. Various organs of IMO.

Q104. Reserve buoyancy vs Residual buoyancy.

Q105. IMO Stability Requirements.

Q106. IMO GBS (Goal Based Standards) – why needed, since when, role of classification societies.

Q107. Implication for doing renewal survey 4 months before?

Q108. Leadership quality of Chief Engineer.

Q109. EEDI reference line.

Q110. ESP survey for 5-year-old ship and 15-year-old ship.

Q111. What is ESI (Environmental Ship Index).

Q112. Can another RO carry out survey in place of your ship's RO (Recognized Organization).

Q113. How to verify if ship complies with ISM in shortest time.

Q114. Noise level allowable in ER and ECR – what is a decibel.

Q115. SOLAS applicability – what GT? Applicable on Indian coastal ship of 300 GT?

Q116. Name the manuals on board.

Q117. RO criteria (Recognized Organization criteria).

Q118. Types of audits.

Q119. CIF and FOB (Incoterms).

Q120. USCG ballast water requirements – exact values.

Q121. BWTS not working – whom to report and action as CE.

Q122. Where H&M (Hull & Machinery) and P&I both come together.

Q123. How to make PMS for vessel – how to prioritize jobs. Which machinery CE cannot inspect without surveyor presence?

Q124. Qualities of Chief Engineer as per STCW.

Q125. Chapters of COSWP (Code of Safe Working Practices).

Q126. Reaching Japan for 4-part discharging, bilge holding tank full – action as CE.

Q127. Dispensation – procedure, request to whom.

Q128. Propeller being fitted – push-up length table and graph.

Q129. Define cargo work.

Q130. How to reduce cargo work in LNG carrier.

Q131. IMO bodies.

Q132. How to verify SEEMP implemented onboard.

Q133. What is noon chit.

Q134. More detailed vs expanded inspection – clear ground.

Q135. Output of master's review (Management review).

Q136. Types of civil liability funds.

Q137. What measures dynamic stability.

Q138. Duties of Indian Coast Guard.

Q139. Changes in various IMO instruments from 2020 to 2026.

Q140. Effects of low sulphur fuel (VLSFO, ULSFO).

Q141. Non-treaty instruments of IMO.

Q142. Edge corrosion.

Q143. Length as per tonnage convention – why not LOA? Why separate definition?

Q144. Raining during bunkering – actions as CE.