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Container Ships, Securing Cargo Awareness

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  1. Question 1

    How many degrees of freedom is a ship’s motion defined by? Select the ONE correct answer.
    • 2.
    • 3.
    • 4.
    • 6.

  2. Question 2

    How should container stacks be secured? Select the ONE best answer.
    • In accordance with the Cargo Securing Manual.
    • In accordance with the ship’s shipboard management system.
    • In accordance with the terminal’s cargo securing policy.
    • Sufficient enough to ensure the container stack doesn’t become unstable.

  3. Question 3

    What do we mean by lashing force? Select the ONE best answer.
    • This is compressive force acting down in the vertical direction on the corner-posts.
    • This is the tension applied to lashing rods to restrain the movements of containers in a seaway.
    • This is tensile force acting in the transverse direction on the corner-casting container.
    • This is the effect of forces acting on the pins of twist-locks and stacking cones.

  4. Question 4

    What produces dynamic force when a container ship is rolling in a seaway? Select the ONE correct answer.
    • Acceleration due to gravity.
    • Accelerations in the longitudinal direction.
    • Accelerations in the transverse direction.
    • Accelerations in the vertical direction.

  5. Question 5

    What rolling phenomenon is experienced on ships with very fine and flared bows and wide transom sterns like those on container ships? Select the ONE correct answer.
    • Parametric rolling.
    • Excessive Rolling.
    • Synchronous rolling.
    • Violent rolling.

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Container Ships, Securing Cargo Awareness is a CBT test with 12 questions and verified answers. Common topics include: container, containers, motion, force, produces, dynamic, stack, sea.

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