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• n  a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship

• This year Ashland's tonnage was 7,140,203 and the tonnage of Marquette and Escanaba was estimated at 10,000,000.
• By 1957, Germany's merchant tonnage had soared from next to nothing to 4,300,000 tons.
• But, as with dry-cargo tonnage (see p.

• tunnage
• tonnage duty

News & Articles

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• Average truckload linehaul costs in May 1.5 percent higher than in May of 2012
  Average truckload linehaul costs in May were 1.5 percent higher than in May of 2012, the Cass Truckload Linehaul Index reports. Capacity remains tight and tonnage has been up only modestly compared with second-quarter 2012.
  June 13, 2013 - The Trucker
• Container Tonnage Soars at Port Saint John
  Port Saint John in New Brunswick reported its container tonnage in the first five months of 2013 totaled 220,198 tons, jumping 102 percent from 109,218 tons in the same period in 2012.
  June 12, 2013 - Journal of Commerce Online
• Old Dominion increases expectations for growth
  THOMASVILLE | Old Dominion Freight Line updated its expectations for growth in second-quarter 2013 tonnage per day and revenue per hundredweight, excluding fuel surcharges, last week in preparation for its attendance at the Deutsche Bank Global Industrials and Basic Materials Conference on Thursday.
  June 11, 2013 - The Lexington Dispatch

Quotes

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• Michael Palin in Sydney Morning Herald
  You're not looking at big, bulk markets,Dr Palin said. "What you are looking at are specific, lower-tonnage applications."
• Robert Gates in GovExec.com
  ...Gates called for keeping the conventional threat in perspective: "As much as the Navy has shrunk since the end of the Cold War, for example, in terms of tonnage, its battle fleet is still larger than the next 13 navies combined -- and 11...