The phrase "average tonnage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the typical weight or capacity of a vessel, cargo, or shipment in a specific context, such as shipping or transportation.
Example: "The average tonnage of the fleet has increased over the past year, indicating a shift towards larger vessels."
Alternatives: "mean tonnage" or "typical tonnage".
Until now, food production has been controlled by Big Agriculture, with its macho fixation on "average tonnage" and "record harvests".
Nautilus – which represents 23,000 ship masters, officers, ratings and other shipping industry staff – is concerned not just with power issues but with the rapid recent increases in the size of passenger ships, with average tonnage doubling over the past decade.
On a prominent chalkboard, Kinne tallied each crew's average tonnage per hour.
The conventional wisdom is that the average tonnage and horsepower (HP) of the world fleet of large vessels are increasing.
In fact, the average tonnage of vessels built during the last three years has been below the 30-year average (621 GRT).
Similarly, the average tonnage imported (520 000 tonnes) was 43percentt higher than in 1985-1994 and 32percentt higher than the extrapolated trend amount (Table 7).
The China Iron and Steel Association said on Friday that the country's average daily tonnage of steel production from May 21 through May 31 had dropped 3.9 percent compared with May 11 through 20.
Displacing 250 350 tons, these vessels were two or three times the tonnage of the average merchant ship for the sake of cargo capacity.
By the mid-1980s the number of daily transits had fallen to an average of 50, but net annual tonnage was about 350,000,000 long tons (355,600,000 metric tons).
Regarding the feasibility, due to multiple sampling and numerous checks, the average mining grade of some declared tonnage is likely to be known within acceptable limits, say ±5%, and verified by standard statistical methods.
The actual waste generation activities are reported monthly detailing all waste generated from demolition by average loads per day and per tonnage.
