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net tonnage

noun

  1. the taxable gross tonnage of a merchant ship.



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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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