net tonnage

American  

noun

1. the taxable gross tonnage of a merchant ship.

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Example Sentences

During 2020, nearly 19,000 ships, or an average of 51.5 ships per day, with a net tonnage of 1.17 billion tonnes passed through the canal, according to the SCA.

From Reuters

In all, 5,230 toll-paying ships, having a net tonnage of 26,148,878, used the Canal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The net tonnage of vessels passing through the canal in 1911 was 18,324,794, and the total passengers were 275,651.

From Project Gutenberg

The entire foreign mail service is conducted by fifteen companies, having one hundred and twenty-one steamers, with a gross tonnage of 235,488 tons; the net tonnage being 141,293, assuming the engines, boilers, fuel, etc., to be forty per cent of the whole tonnage, which is altogether too low an estimate.

From Project Gutenberg

Her gross tonnage was 32,500 and her net tonnage, 9,145.

From Project Gutenberg