net ton
noun[C]
MEASURESukus→short ton
Examplesofnet ton
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In 1960 it reported 243 millionnetton-miles of revenue freight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1970 it reported 359 millionnetton-miles of revenue freight and zero passengers on 333 miles of road operated (138 miles owned).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.There has been an increase in train loading and innettonmiles per engine hour.
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They are now 6.25 francs ($1.206) pernettonfor loaded vessels.
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He estimated that by this plan we should build up fairly quickly an average of 15,000netton-miles per engine hour.
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In 1947, thenetton-miles per engine hour had been raised from 461 in 1938 to 516.
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In 1938, that figure was 461netton-miles per engine hour.
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For the corresponding period this year it was 7,096,761,000nettonmiles, which is an increase of 141,931,000.
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Thenettonmiles for those first 36 weeks in 1938 were 11,190,000.
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In the corresponding period of this year which, remember, takes in that dreadful patch at the beginning of the year, thenettonmiles were 13,642,000.
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