The Port of Houston is now the second largest in the United States in tonnage moved; a major international port, its top cargoes (in terms of tonnage) include petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, grain, fertilizer, plastics, iron, and steel.
American warplanes, in turn, have dropped an ever expanding tonnage of bombs, including two "daisy cutters," which are 15,000 pound bombs.
Up to the time when he broke it, Britain had been losing tremendous tonnages of shipping, including all our food imports.
Here you will learn about the great ship's tonnage (an astonishing 46,329 gross – not including 10,000lb of bacon and sausages in the cook's cabin), the number of its boilers (29), its furnaces (162), even the number of rivets that held the ship together (about 3 million).
The 28 Japanese and German submarines that operated in Australian waters between 1942 and 1945 sank a total of 30 ships with a combined tonnage of 151000 LT; 654 people, including 200 Australian merchant seamen, were killed on board the ships attacked by submarines.
There is the maritime argument: More than half of the world's merchant fleet tonnage passes through the straits around Indonesia, including the vital 805 kilometer stretch of water between Peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian island of Sumatra, known as the Strait of Malacca.
The skipper must bring the required passports, crew list and ship's papers (including the yacht's name, tonnage, crew members and home port).
(iv) Describe in detail the rail operations to be conducted upon the line, including estimates of freight (carloads and tonnage) to be transported, the anticipated daily and annual number of train movements, number of cars per train, types of cars, motive power requirements, proposed speeds, labor force, and proposed maintenance-of-way practices.
After the first registration deadline on December 2010, approximately 5,000 individual substances were registered including intermediates (OSII, TII) and low tonnage substances (1 to 10 t/a) for which no DNELs and DMELs were derived.
Parliament granted James a generous life income, including all of the proceeds of tonnage and poundage and the customs duties.
