In terms of tonnage, about 30 per cent of the world's merchant fleet is registered in Panama or Liberia. |
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By then, New York City was handling more tonnage than Boston, Baltimore, and New Orleans combined. |
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Cargo tonnage also rose by 2.9 per cent in May, with 15, 801 tonnes handled by the airport. |
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At least 5000 tons of bombs were dropped, the greatest tonnage in one night so far in the war. |
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The drop in dry cargo tonnage was disappointing but you can't legislate for bad harvests. |
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Next month we'll be dropping twice the tonnage of bombs we are dropping this month. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Prior to this only ships of low tonnage and shallow draught had been able to cross the sand bar at the entrance to the bay. |
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Included are ship names, ship captains, merchants, tonnage, disembarkation port, and dates of departure and arrival. |
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Singapore has been the world's top port in terms of shipping tonnage in the past decade or more. |
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Immingham, on the south bank of the estuary, is the seventh biggest general port in Europe and the biggest in Britain in terms of tonnage. |
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The net registered tonnage of a ship roughly corresponds to 40 per cent of its deadweight. |
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As for size, the tonnage of ships in this period was reckoned literally in terms of capacity to carry tuns, or casks, of wine. |
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In fact the tonnage of maggots, casters and groundbait introduced must have been incredible. |
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This boom has been fuelled by the Indian shipping rates which are an all time high due to tonnage charges hardening in the international market. |
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All in all, however, citrus covers the largest tonnage if you include oranges, grapefruit, lemons and smaller varietals such as naartjies. |
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The government had launched a campaign to increase the tonnage of turf drawn from peat bogs as a substitute. |
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Singapore port is set to retain its position as the world's busiest port in terms of shipping tonnage for the 14th year running. |
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Though the total British tonnage continued to increase, as a proportion of the world's shipping it fell steadily. |
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No statistic better illustrates Marblehead's decline than comparisons of shipping tonnage before and after the war. |
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The whole issue came to light recently when it emerged that Ireland had exceeded its European level of tonnage. |
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Gravel pits, marl pits and stone quarries were also an early source of freight tonnage as was cement. |
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Fishermen who want to trade up and buy a bigger boat usually scrap their existing vessel and buy extra tonnage from the market. |
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The total tonnage handled by the 13 minor ports came to just 100,000 last year, whereas Kochi handled 12.8 million tonnes. |
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In the United States today, common carrier and private trucking fleets transport about two-thirds of all freight tonnage and, thus, play a critical role in the economy. |
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Even though US shipyards were beginning to produce new merchant ships in record numbers, there was still a drop in overall available merchant and tanker tonnage. |
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Adding the tonnage moved by scheduled carriers to that by private operators finally produces an estimate of the overall total tonnage of freight on the roads. |
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Plans should include the proposed location and layout of the area, the type of lighterage to be used, and the task organization needed to attain the desired tonnage capacity. |
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The quarterly results were helped by a surge in March when there was double digit month-on-month growth in both the number of passengers and cargo tonnage. |
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Based on advice from the Land Transport Safety Authority, I am satisfied that the East Coast main trunk line carrying tonnage to and from the Port of Tauranga is safe. |
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Some truckers have been known to convey cargo up to the Zambian frontier in small loads to respect the stipulated tonnage allowed on the road in the neighbouring countries. |
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His death is not commensurate with the tonnage of human suffering he caused. |
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For example a local man with a currach, who wouldn't have tonnage, has to go out and spend in the region of six or seven thousand pounds in order to fish for lobsters. |
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This position would soon improve, since the United States had, thanks to Theodore Roosevelt, more tonnage under construction than any other country except Britain. |
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Two thirds of the bomb tonnage of the five year air war fell in February, March and April of 1945, most of it on militarily insignificant targets. |
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Before 1836 the registered tonnage of sailing ships was a notional figure calculated by a formula based on the length, breadth and depth of the hold. |
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However, global airfreight tonnage is projected to grow by only 2 percent. |
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Such a charge is based on a vessel's gross registered tonnage as a practical approximation to recover the costs associated with delivered benefits. |
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Now, unlike the master shipbuilders of the Mediterranean civilizations, the Viking shipwrights didn't think in terms of cargo tonnage, military logistics, or naval tactics. |
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Parliament's resolution said that seals and whales eat at least 5.5 million tons of fish and krill a year, double the tonnage caught by fishermen. |
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Japanese coast guard officials said the ship's registry gave the vessel's tonnage at 243 ton gross tons and indicates that it had previously sailed to Japan. |
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The average tonnage was around thirteen tons, with the bulk of the vessels either fourteen or twenty tons with an upper limit of twenty-eight tons. |
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The ship will serve to lift capability in a broad range of scenarios and this is expected to lead to the acquisition of more tonnage in the future. |
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On the negative side, the sheer tonnage of opinions can overwhelm and cause a degree of amnesia. |
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The Landing Ship Infantry Empire Broadsword was built in Wilmington, USA in 1942, gross tonnage 7177 tons, and given to Britain as part of Lend Lease. |
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The Prince Rupert had a net registered tonnage of 1,172 tons. |
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Chinese-owned steamship tonnage was reckoned in 1935 at 675,000 tons. |
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Liverpool was the leading handler of traffic, with 2.5 million tons in 1830, but nationally in 1841 three-fifths of tonnage was still handled without docks. |
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The borough's Clockface Quarry, Scammonden, landfill has a permitted tonnage of 350,000 per annum. |
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Although no Parliamentary Act for the levy of tonnage and poundage was obtained, Charles continued to collect the duties. |
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Parliament granted James a generous life income, including all of the proceeds of tonnage and poundage and the customs duties. |
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The tonnage of the Duyfken of Harmensz's fleet is given as 25 and 30 lasten. |
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The port of Shanghai is the largest port in the world in both cargo tonnage and activity. |
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It regained its position as the world's busiest port by cargo tonnage and the world's busiest container port in 2009 and 2010, respectively. |
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Europe's busiest container port and biggest port by cargo tonnage by far is the Port of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. |
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This makes winkles the sixth most important shellfish harvested in Scotland in terms of tonnage, and seventh most important in terms of value. |
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In 2014 Liverpool was the United Kingdom's sixth largest port by tonnage of freight handled. |
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The treaty also restricted the independent tonnage of ships and forbade the construction of submarines. |
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Loch Ryan Port is now served by 2 Superfast Conventional ferries replacing the HSS Fastcraft and old tonnage Stena Caledonia and Stena Navigator. |
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The Dutch share of European shipping tonnage was enormous, well over half during most of the period of their ascendancy. |
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However, the London Naval Treaty after World War I limited tonnage of warships, but placed no limits on ships of under 600 tons. |
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Throughout the rest of the 20th century, the United States Navy maintained a tonnage greater than that of the next 17 largest navies combined. |
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However, the balance of bomb tonnage being dropped shifted greatly in favour of the RAF as Bomber Command gained in strength. |
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The total tonnage of the country's merchant fleet is 202 million dwt, ranked 1st in the world. |
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They were agile and easier to navigate, with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and 1 to 3 masts, with lateen triangular sails allowing luffing. |
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They were agile and easier to navigate, with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and one to three masts, with lateen triangular sails allowing luffing. |
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This would give burthen of 500 tons and a displacement tonnage of about 800 tons. |
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Of these the first two were of a tonnage that should be rated as about one hundred and thirty tons. |
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Milford Haven is the fourth largest port in the UK in terms of tonnage and the busiest for oil products. |
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Commodore Decatur on the President had the advantage in scantling strength, firepower, crew, and tonnage, but not in maneuverability. |
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Several local companies specialise in shipbuilding and repairs to small tonnage craft. |
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Readers who deem the book's liberties too free can stick to the tonnage of Watergate memoirs, transcripts, investigative reports and marginalia. |
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While the majority of tonnage is downbound, the numbers of upbound and downbound barges and tows at each lock each year are about equal. |
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Castle continues to increase its market share, with our tonnage gains in the quarter again outpacing the industry growth rate. |
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The highest annual tonnage was produced in 1907 at over 26 million tons. |
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In terms of usage, hot rolling processes more tonnage than any other manufacturing process, and cold rolling processes the most tonnage out of all cold working processes. |
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In 1996, Japan ranked fourth in the world in tonnage of fish caught. |
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The cargo rankings based on tonnage should be interpreted with caution since these measures are not directly comparable and cannot be converted to a single, standardized unit. |
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A sudden rise in oil production, longer transport routes, and slow steaming because of high bunker prices led to a shortage in tonnage towards the end of the year. |
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Some particular variables include winter temperatures, excess tanker tonnage, supply fluctuations in the Persian Gulf, and interruptions in refinery services. |
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Most of the British losses in tonnage occurred in Beatty's force. |
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For example, the TAC set for North Sea Nephrops is based on the aggregate total tonnage of removals recommended by science for nine separate functional unit areas. |
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At the end of World War I, as part of the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles restricted the total tonnage of the German surface fleet. |
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The growth in the containership segments remains positively impacted by a healthy level of demolition to counterbalance the inflow of newbuild tonnage. |
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This income came from the Crown lands that Henry owned as well as from customs duties like tonnage and poundage, granted by parliament to the king for life. |
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The shipbuilding industry on the River Clyde increased greatly from the 1840s and by 1870 the Clyde was producing more than half of Britain's tonnage of shipping. |
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By the end of the 1920s, Shell was the world's leading oil company, producing 11 percent of the world's crude oil supply and owning 10 percent of its tanker tonnage. |
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Teesport on the River Tees is the third biggest port in the country in terms of tonnage shipped largely due to the local steel and chemical industries. |
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Instead they were reduced to the slow attrition of a tonnage war. |
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Ashbury entered Cambria in the NYYC Queen's Cup race in New York City on 8 August against a fleet of seventeen schooners, with time allowed based on their tonnage. |
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The chief tax imposed by Charles was a feudal levy known as ship money, which proved even more unpopular, and lucrative, than poundage and tonnage before it. |
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The surface drilling program will target the structural roots of the historic mine area which produced a significant tonnage of free-milling high-grade ore. |
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In January 1629, Charles opened the second session of the English Parliament, which had been prorogued in June 1628, with a moderate speech on the tonnage and poundage issue. |
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It seems likely that tumblehome is acceptable only above a certain tonnage, which suggests that the US DD-21 is workable whereas a tumble-homed fast attack boat might not. |
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The tonnage of the returning ships rose by 125 percent in this period. |
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