Arriving at Halley (formerly Ice Station Zebra), he finds skidoos, mobile cranes and snowcats spewing diesel fumes across the ice, carving an "avenue of noise" as they unload a huge tonnage of supplies from the ship on which he has sailed.
London is the largest city in Western Europe; it requires an enormous tonnage of supplies each day and Hertfordshire grew wealthy on the proceeds of trade because no less than three of the old Roman roads serving the capital run through it, as do the Grand Union Canal and other watercourses.
Kesselring now concentrated on shoring up his forces by moving the required tonnages of supplies from Sicily but his efforts were frustrated by Allied aircraft and submarines.
He selects vineyards by the characteristics of their grapes, not by the tonnage they can supply.
As the division inched its way forward through the tough German defenses, it used a lot of ammunition the main item of the daily supply tonnage in heavy combat.
Despite the desperate situation, the OKW continued to send in significant reinforcement and supply tonnage to the besieged Axis forces by air.
Despite the flatness of the writing, and Proulx's relaxed attitude to saturating us with detail about, say, advances in woodcutting technology, the book's sheer tonnage of incident supplies an intermittent but undeniable thrill.
The Linz-Donawitz process, invented in Austria shortly after World War II, used oxygen supplied as a gas from a tonnage oxygen plant, blowing it at supersonic velocity into the top of the molten iron in a converter vessel.
As a daily composite of the tonnage fees on popular seagoing routes, the B.D.I. essentially mirrors supply and demand at the most elementary level.
Instead, says Paul Watkiss, one of the authors of the DEFRA report, it is more helpful to think about food-vehicle miles (ie, the number of miles travelled by vehicles carrying food) and food-tonne miles (which take the tonnage being carried into account).The DEFRA report, which analysed the supply of food in Britain, contained several counterintuitive findings.
