As a management level engineering officer on a motor vessel equipped with engines capable of burning both high sulfur content residual fuels and low s...

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As a management level engineering officer on a motor vessel equipped with engines capable of burning both high sulfur content residual fuels and low sulfur content distillate fuels, on approaching arrival to a US port, for planning purposes, what must be done?

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The fuel changeover is commenced BEFORE the vessel enters the SOx emissions control area to allow time for the high sulfur fuel to be flushed out of the fuel lines.

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As a management level engineering officer on a motor vessel equipped with engines capable of burning both high sulfur content residual fuels and low sulfur content distillate fuels, on approaching arrival to a US port, for planning purposes, what must be done?

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