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What does tonnage mean?

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Noun
  1. The number of tons of water that a floating ship displaces.
  2. The capacity of a ship's hold etc in units of 100 cubic feet.
  3. The number of tons of bombs dropped in a particular region over a particular period of time.
  4. A charge made on each ton of cargo when landed etc.
  5. The total shipping of a fleet or nation.
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It led to a doubling of the number of fishermen, and an increase of 65 per cent in fleet tonnage and of 45 per cent in production.
Cargo tonnage also rose by 2.9 per cent in May, with 15, 801 tonnes handled by the airport.
Included are ship names, ship captains, merchants, tonnage, disembarkation port, and dates of departure and arrival.
Under EU regulations, a new vessel can only be introduced into a national fleet after its equivalent, in terms of tonnage and power, is replaced.
Next month we'll be dropping twice the tonnage of bombs we are dropping this month.
By then, New York City was handling more tonnage than Boston, Baltimore, and New Orleans combined.

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