Measurement of a ship's weight carrying capacity.
1The Company's ship construction contracts in hand include approximately 8,900,600 deadweight tonnage.
2Currently, General Maritime owns 31 tankers with a total carrying capacity of about 4 million deadweight tonnage.
3Fifteen cargo ships with a deadweight tonnage of 103,692, were lost during 1918 by the Naval Overseas Transportation Service.
4Deadweight tonnage is the weight of whatever a ship carries in the way of cargo.
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