Sentence examples for long tons from inspiring English sources

It is expressed in long tons of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kilograms).

There were nearly 210 million long tons (213 million metric tons) of cargo through the canal in 2013.

"Really long, tons of vertical, all sorts of cool terrain, jumps and features," he said in a telephone interview.

The cargo carried through the canal that year amounted to more than 132.5 million long tons (134.6 million metric tons).

On May 15 , 1967the WASHINGTON TRADER departed from Beaumont with a cargo of 16,183.32 long tons of lube oil.

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).

Had a Cape route rate been requested, which was not the case, it is agreed that the point from which the parties would have bargained would be $17.35 per long ton of cargo as against $14.25 per long ton.

The Imperial system also uses long hundredweight, which is equal to 112 U.S. pounds, and it also uses the long ton, equivalent to 2240 U.S. pounds.

The piece, Long Ton (2009), seems to be about markets and exchange, and the mystery of how the world economy creates value.

Ton, unit of weight in the avoirdupois system equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18 kg) in the United States (the short ton) and 2,240 pounds (1,016.05 kg) in Britain (the long ton).

The charter party provided that the freight rate would be in accordance with the then prevailing American Tanker Rate Schedule (ATRS), $14.25 per long ton of cargo, plus seventy-five percent (75%), and in addition there was a charge of $.85 per long ton for passage through the Suez Canal.