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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

[citation needed] Transport portal Containerization Panama Canal toll system Shipping ton Maersk claims 14,780 TEU worth of space and a loading plan of 15,212...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Essar Shipping Ltd., now Essar Shipping Ports & Logistics Limited, is an Indian shipping corporation for the global energy business. Established in 1945...

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...

historically expressed in long tons, but is now usually given internationally in tonnes (metric tons). In modern international shipping conventions such as the...

Cokaliong Shipping Lines, Inc. (CSLI) is a shipping line based in Cebu City, Philippines. It operates both passenger and cargo ferries on eight routes...

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...

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...

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...

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...

COSCO Shipping, one of the world's largest shipping companies. COSCO Shipping was formed in January 2016 by a merger of COSCO and China Shipping Group...

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...

Servant 1 is a 29,000-ton heavy-lift ship capable of carrying very large vessels and offshore platforms. Built for Dutch shipping firm Wijsmuller Transport...

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...

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...

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...

The environmental impact of shipping include air pollution, water pollution, acoustic, and oil pollution. Ships are responsible for more than 18% of nitrogen...

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...

The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) is an American maritime classification society established in 1862. Its stated mission is to promote the security...

intermodal freight transport using intermodal containers (also called shipping containers, or ISO containers). Containerization, also referred as container...