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Meanings of deadweight tonnage in English

Russian
дедвейт
Portuguese
dwt
Spanish
dwt
Catalan
tonatge de pes mort

Measurement of a ship's weight carrying capacity.

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Examples for "dwt"
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Near it was found a golden neck-ornament, weighing 2 dwt.
Anglo-Saxon Literature
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China in February issued ship design guidelines recognising ships of 400,000 dwt.
Reuters
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The 23,709 dwt cargo ship had three Greek officers a Filipino crew.
Reuters
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The 22,294 dwt tanker had a crew of 28 North Koreans.
Reuters
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The British standard has 18 dwt.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
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In January she was loaded with 2,500 tons deadweight, and sailed for Rangoon.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885
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On the completion of these he was asked by his owner to take command of a barque of about 600 tons deadweight.
The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
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The tanker is 70,362 tons deadweight.
Reuters
1
Lemonides is focusing more closely on valuations and has been buying energy names like Tidewater Inc TDW.N and biotechs like Gilead Sciences Inc GILD.O.
Reuters
Usage of deadweight tonnage in English
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The Company's ship construction contracts in hand include approximately 8,900,600 deadweight tonnage.
Reuters
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Currently, General Maritime owns 31 tankers with a total carrying capacity of about 4 million deadweight tonnage.
Reuters
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Fifteen cargo ships with a deadweight tonnage of 103,692, were lost during 1918 by the Naval Overseas Transportation Service.
Our Navy in the War
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Deadweight tonnage is the weight of whatever a ship carries in the way of cargo.
The new yorker
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