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Scenario You are employed as an engineer at a freight port, where you are responsible for monitoring and ensuring safety, both at the port itself and on various cargo ships entering

and leaving the port. You have been tasked with carrying out a range of safety critical calculations, to present in a technical report for the Port Operations Manager. The report should include appropriate calculations for each of the applications below, along with any supporting commentary that may be necessary. Below are diagrams to illustrate how empty cargo ships are lowered into the water and how loaded cargo ships are removed from the water. The extra weight of the cargo in the ship requires a ramp to be used, to reduce the required tension in the cable: Left: method used to lower empty cargo ships into the water. Below: method used to remove loaded cargo ships from the water./n

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