Your examiner asks: "On a RoPax vessel, what garbage-handling questions specific to passenger operations might you be asked about, beyond the general Annex V rules?"

A. How many garbage categories Annex V recognises (including cooking oil, added as its own category, generally not permitted to be discharged at sea); what to do with cooking oil generated by the galley/catering operation given the much higher passenger-catering volume on a RoPax compared with a typical cargo ship; and how the Garbage Management Plan accounts for the additional categories and volumes a passenger operation generates compared with a similarly-sized cargo vessel.

B. RoPax vessels are exempt from Annex V garbage categorisation because passengers, not crew, generate most of the waste.

C. Cooking oil is treated identically to bilge water under Annex I, with no Annex V garbage-category relevance.

D. Garbage Management Plans are required only for cargo-only vessels; passenger vessels rely solely on port reception facilities with no plan requirement.

A. A RoRo vehicle deck is typically a large, open space with high fuel-load density (vehicles carrying their own fuel, sometimes with engines running during loading/unloading) and limited internal subdivision compared to cellular cargo holds — a fire can spread rapidly across the open deck with few barriers, which is why fixed fire-detection and fire-suppression systems on vehicle decks, and strict rules on running engines and smoking, are taken especially seriously.

B. RoRo vessels have no greater fire risk than any other cargo ship type; the open deck arrangement has no bearing on fire spread.

C. Fire risk on a RoRo deck applies only to vehicles carrying dangerous goods; ordinary private vehicles present no fire risk at all.

D. Vehicle deck fire risk is addressed solely by the IMDG Code, with no SOLAS Chapter II-2 RoRo-specific provision.

A. Crew should have RoRo-deck-specific familiarisation covering vehicle movement hazards, blind spots around larger commercial vehicles, designated pedestrian routes away from active vehicle lanes, awareness of exhaust fume accumulation risk from running engines, and high-visibility PPE — this familiarisation should happen before a new crew member is required to work the deck unsupervised, not learned informally on the job.

B. No specific training is required beyond the general safety induction given to all new crew on joining, regardless of department or task.

C. Only the stevedoring company's own staff need training; ship's crew working in the same space have no separate training requirement.

D. Vehicle deck familiarisation is required only for engine room crew, not deck department crew who actually work the cargo deck.