deadweight tonne
noun[Cusually plural]
TRANSPORTukusameasurementof theweightof ashipwhen it isempty:
Thecompanyhas more thanhalfits200,000 deadweighttonnesofbargeslyingidle.
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The 94,287deadweighttonnevessel was listed 5 degrees to slow the flow of heavy bunker oil, and the leak was eventually stopped at 2.12pm.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is primarily a cargo port, though its inland location limits access to ships of 12,000 deadweight tonnes or less.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The number of product tankers of between 2,000 and 60,000 deadweight tonnes declined by 55 per cent. from 1984 to 1986.
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That decline took place notably in 1981, when we lost 6·3 million deadweight tonnes.
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We have a modem fleet of nearly 1,000 ships, almost 30 million deadweight tonnes in total.
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This is the proposal that all tankers of 20,000 deadweight tonnes and above should be fitted with segregated ballast.
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The number of deadweight tonnes is perhaps more significant than the reduction in the number of ships.
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In the first nine months of 1984, more than 2 million deadweight tonnes were lost.
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She has some 500 of these, comprising 13 million deadweight tonnes and she ranks tenth among maritime nations.
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In the past 10 years, more than 30 million deadweight tonnes have been lost.
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