A shipping ton, freight ton, measurement ton or ocean ton is a measure of volume used for shipments of freight in large vehicles, trains or ships. In...
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The long ton, also known as the imperial ton or displacement ton, is a measurement unit equal to 2,240 pounds (1,016.0 kg). It is the name for the unit...
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hundredweight). A short ton–force is 2,000 pounds-force (8,896.44 N). Tonnage, volume measurement used in maritime shipping, originally based on 100...
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Tonnage (redirect from Register ton)
capacity of a ship, and is commonly used to assess fees on commercial shipping. The term derives from the taxation paid on tuns or casks of wine. In modern...
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completion of the 25,000 ton ocean liner SS Shalom, which turned out to be a failure, marking the end of the ZIM passenger shipping era. Due to rising airline...
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[citation needed] Transport portal Containerization Panama Canal toll system Shipping ton List of busiest container ports Maersk claims 14,780 TEU worth of space...
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Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A., branded as MSC, is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970. The company is owned...
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American Revolution. Four salt spoons equaled one teaspoon. Seah Ser Shipping ton – a unit of volume defined as 50 cu ft (1.4 m3) Stuck Wineglass – used...
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Chartering is an activity within the shipping industry whereby a shipowner hires out the use of their vessel to a charterer. The contract between the parties...
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5400 cu. ft., or 54 English shipping tons. Note that many English sources such as Joyner provide these numbers calqued as "tons" without converting their...
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sometimes reckoned as 3000 "sacks". By the 1940s the shipping koku was 1⁄10 of the shipping ton of 40 or 42 cu ft (i.e., 110–120 L); the koku of timber...
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On 2 November 2008, Oman Shipping Company signed a framework agreement with RSHI for the construction of four 400,000-ton vessels to transport iron ore...
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The 2+1⁄2-ton, 6×6 truck was a standard class of medium duty trucks, designed at the beginning of World War II for the US Armed Forces, in service for...
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Deadweight tonnage (redirect from Deadweight ton)
historically expressed in long tons, but is now usually given internationally in tonnes (metric tons). In modern international shipping conventions such as the...
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started as a shipping division of the mother company in the middle of 1988 when it bought two vessels - the MV Sto. Niño de Soledad, a 500-ton DWT capacity...
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Essar Shipping Ltd., now Essar Shipping Ports & Logistics Limited, is an Indian shipping corporation for the global energy business. Established in 1945...
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MSC Cruises (redirect from Mediterranean Shipping Cruises)
It was founded in 1988 in Naples, Italy, as part of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). In addition to being the world's largest privately held...
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Mighty Servant 2 was a 29,000-ton semi-submersible, heavy-lift ship operated by Dockwise. The ship drew worldwide attention in 1988 for transporting the...
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started. The renewed German campaign was effective, sinking 1.4 million tons of shipping between October 1916 and January 1917. Despite this, the deadlock situation...
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Greece is a maritime nation by tradition, as shipping is arguably the oldest form of occupation of the Greeks and has been a key element of Greek economic...
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COSCO (redirect from China Ocean Shipping Co.)
China Ocean Shipping Company (abbreviated as COSCO) was a former shipping corporation from 1961 to 2016, owned by the State Council of China. The company...
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A. H. Bull Steamship Company (redirect from American Coal Shipping Company)
was a shipping company and passenger liner service founded in New York City in 1902 by Archibald H. Bull (1848-1920). Service started with shipping between...
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over a thousand tons can now arrive in Luzhou. Before the renovations, the Hu-Yu Sea Route was unable to suitably support the shipping needs of the Sichuan...
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320-tonne (315-long-ton; 353-short-ton) Stülcken derricks. Soon after that, in 1980, DDG became bankrupt. With that, only the Dutch shipping companies Jumbo...
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Containerization (redirect from Container shipping)
intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers, or ISO containers). Containerization, also referred as container...
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120-132 toneladas, 170–203 m³, 6000–7200 cu. ft., or 60—72 English shipping tons. In Bergreen's book his name is noted as Hans Vargue at the end of the...
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linearly converted.) At other times, it was closer to 2⁄3 of the British shipping ton. The Spanish tonelada of mass was normally reckoned as 20 quintals or...
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The environmental impact of shipping include air pollution, water pollution, acoustic, and oil pollution. Ships are responsible for more than 18% of nitrogen...
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capacity of roughly 102 toneladas, 145 m³, 5100 cu. ft., or 51 English shipping tons. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Victoria (ship, 1519). Bergreen...
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equal to 1000 pounds (i.e. one half of a short ton). Another use is as a unit of deadweight to compute shipping charges. 1 kip ≈ 4,448.222 N = 4.448222 kN...
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