Sentence examples for tonnage reduction from inspiring English sources

1935 Roosevelt Asks for Navy Reduction A twenty-per-cent tonnage reduction in the world's leading navies to promote international peace was proposed by President Roosevelt through his Ambassador-at-Large, Norman Davis, at the opening today [Dec. 9] of the Five-Power Naval Conference in the Locarno Room at the Foreign Office.

The Chinese government also announced further reductions on its export quotas for the first months of 2011, which represent a 35% reduction in tonnage as compared to exports during the first half of 2010.

Mr. Gordon said it was not possible, in a short span of time, to quantify the exact tonnage of the greenhouse gas reductions to which the university had committed.

This has achieved a reduction of 7% in the tonnage of paper purchased.

Luis Frazao Gomes, a Portuguese fishing minister, said his country's fishing industry would "die .In fact, the commission's proposed reduction of 18% in the tonnage of the EU's fishing fleet sounds like a fairly modest response to "the risk of stock collapse".

Because the most alarming dwindling in stocks is in northern waters, from which Spain has been largely excluded, the commission is assuming a reduction of just 13% in the Spanish fleet's tonnage, compared to a cut of 29% for Britain's.In this section Sour Slavs in the slow lane Star struck Under attack Looking ahead.

For as long as government suppliers continue to be unpaid and banks undercapitalised, the cash-starved economy has no prospect of moving again.All the measures for 2013, amounting to €9 billion of spending cuts, have been agreed on, including reductions in farmers' modest pensions and a new tonnage tax that patriotic shipowners whose vessels fly the Greek flag have unexpectedly agreed to pay.

The reduction in quotas for the early months of 2011 — a 35 percent drop in tonnage from the first half of this year — is the latest in a series of measures by Beijing that has gradually curtailed much of the world's supply of rare earths.

The result was a 19percentt reduction in the amount of land devoted to opium in Afghanistan, the United Nations found, even though the total tonnage of opium produced dropped by just 6percentt.

Truck tonnage jumped in June.

The Truck Tonnage Index falls.