measurement ton การใช้

• The basic units of measure are the " Register Ton ", equivalent to 100 cubic feet, and the " Measurement Ton ", equivalent to 40 cubic feet.
• By comparison, a shipment of canoes, which were not packaged for shipment, would be light but would take up a large volume, ensuring the customary freight unit would be the measurement ton of.
• They operated out of 33 ports worldwide and loaded more than 945, 000 pieces of equipment equaling 6.5 million measurement tons ( 7.4 million m?) onto 564 ships bound for Saudi Arabia.
• For her third voyage, " John W . Brown " loaded a cargo of 7, 845.5 measurement tons ( 314, 180 1st Armored Division and loaded 274 of the divisions vehicles, including 61 tanks.
• At the time of the passage of COGSA the customary freight unit for most cargo was the " revenue ton "-the number of long tons ( 2240 lb, 1017 kg ) or measurement tons ( 100 cubic feet ) that would produce the most revenue for the shipowner.
• Consequently, an automobile which might have a volume of 400 cubic feet ( 15 m 3 ), or 4 measurement tons, which would previously entitle the carrier to a limitation of $ 2000, was now freighted as " one automobile " thereby reducing the shipowner's liability from $ 2000 per automobile to $ 500.
• If a canoe were wide by high by long ( 0.6 m x 0.6 m x 3 m ), its measurement would be 40 cubic feet ( 2 x 2 x 10 ) which would be one measurement ton ( anything less than 100 would be 1 by default ) and hence the limitation would be $ 500 per canoe.
• By the end of the war 3, 172, 778 passengers, counting 475 embarked at the Philadelphia cargo port, and 37, 799, 955 measurement tons of cargo had passed through the New York port itself with 5, 893, 199 tons of cargo having passed through its cargo sub-port at Philadelphia about 44 % of all troops and 34 % of all cargo passing through army ports of embarkation.