Sentence examples for tonnage is from inspiring English sources

Bob Costello, the chief economist of the American Trucking Association (great job title), says "While I am optimistic that the worst is behind us, I just don't see anything on the economic horizon that suggests freight tonnage is going to rise significantly or consistently" while the folks at the AAR comment "Is this proof that the carload recession is over?

Net tonnage is gross tonnage minus the non-earning enclosed space: crew's quarters, engine room, etc.

Deadweight tonnage is the weight of whatever a ship carries in the way of cargo.

Displacement-loaded tonnage is simple-so simple that it's rarely ever used.

But year-on-year, truck tonnage is still down 10.4%, while train carloads are down 17.5%.

The net tonnage is the gross tonnage minus certain deductible spaces that do not produce revenue.

The effect of the London Treaty's limit on cruiser tonnage was the saving of weight in warship design.

A few decades ago, Mr. Greenspan noted, "an average price of hot-rolled steel sheet and a corresponding total tonnage was precise enough for most analytic needs".

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).

Greenhouse-gas emissions by absolute tonnage were down 92% since 1995, water usage down 75%, and 74,000 tonnes of used carpet had been recovered from landfills.

But as the American Trucking Association's latest data show the tonnage being shipped in June was down 13.6% year on year, an even bigger drop than that recorded in May.