Sentence examples for cargo tonnage from inspiring English sources

Passenger traffic and cargo tonnage reached new levels in 2000, before the Taiwanese economy began to sour.

Cargo tonnage is the cargo capacity, and may be figured either in weight tons or by cubic measurements, allowing 40 cubic feet to a ton.

The Europoort complex at Rotterdam (Netherlands) is one of the world's leading ports in cargo tonnage handled, and Antwerp Belgiumm) and Hamburg are also among the largest.

Bulk commodities make up about 90percentt of annual cargo tonnage, but vessels of many nations also use the seaway to deliver or pick up general cargoes.

Applying a hierarchical cluster analysis, the paper uses absolute (cargo tonnage) and relative measures (share of cargo work load units, of freighter movements and of international cargo) to establish the reliance of different airport types and groupings on air cargo.

Although total annual shipping to and from Japan has continued to rise, the Japanese shipping sector has declined steadily since the 1970s, both in terms of cargo tonnage hauled and number of ships.

Containerized cargo accounts for more than half of the general-cargo tonnage.

Cargo and mail tonnage was up 12.3%.

Between 1990 and 2013, the tonnage of cargo transported in ships more than doubled, to over 9 billion metric tons.

Upon entering the canal at Port Said or Suez, ships are assessed for tonnage and cargo (passengers have ridden without charge since 1950) and are handled by one or two pilots for actual canal transit, which is increasingly controlled by radar.

Cardiff was once the largest coal-exporting port in the world and, for a few years before the First World War, handled a greater tonnage of cargo than either London or Liverpool.