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TON. Twenty hundred weight, each hundred weight being one hundred and twelve pounds avoirdupois. See act of congress of Aug. 30, 1842, c. 270, s. 20.

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Crilley and Dean (1992) define short sea ships as cargo-carrying vessels of between 100 and 5,000 gross tonnes (98 and 4,920 long tons, respectively).
Great Lakes short sea shipping and the domestic cargo-carrying fleet
They have already stockpiled at least 1.5 million long tons of biomass, or a three-year supply of raw materials at a site in Hearst.
$175M ethanol plant planned for Hearst
In fact, the Chief Mate of the USNS Red Cloud stated that this was the heaviest load the vessel had ever carried- 1505 pieces of cargo, 270,272 square feet displacing 18,946 long tons.
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment deploys through the Port of Beaumont-Texas
The tanker fleets then had a total capacity of 48.9m long tons.
INDONESIA - Shipping
The methane emissions from the dairy at Cal Poly can be calculated as being almost 45 kilograms (100 pounds) per day or 18.3 metric tons (18 long tons/16 short tons) per year and is therefore equivalent to over 380 metric tons (345 short tons/386 long tons) of carbon dioxide per year.
Biogas production: from a covered lagoon digester and utilization in a microturbine
Unit by Factor Mass short tons (2,000 lb) x 0.907 184 7 long tons x 1.016 047 pounds (lb) x .453 592 37 (a) pounds uranium oxide x 0.384 647 (b) (lb [U.sub.3] [O.sub.8]) ounces, avoirdupois x 28.349 52 (avdp oz) Volume barrels of oil (bbl) x 0.158 987 3 cubic yards x 0.764 555 ([yd.sup.3]) cubic feet x 0.028 316 85 ([ft.sup.3]) U.S.
Appendix B. Metric and other physical conversion factors
The second shiplift would accommodate vessels up to 250 feet in length weighing up to 2,500 long tons.
AIDEA receives $5 million for Ketchikan Shipyard. (General)
Cargo tonnage through the 50-mile (80-km) trade route grew 2.7% during the period to 132.1 million long tons, driven by an increase in oil products, containerized cargo and grains.
CANAL REVENUES UP 3%
Backs FY19 production volume guidance of 20M long tons. Based on the assumption that relevant pricing indices will average for the remainder of 2019 their respective year-to-date averages, Cliffs would expect to realize Mining and Pelletizing revenue rates in the range of $109-$114 per long ton, a $1 per long ton increase versus the comparable range provided last quarter.
Cleveland-Cliffs backs FY19 sales volume guidance of 20M long tons
Unit mutiplieds by Mass short tons (2,000 lb) x long tons x pounds (lb) x pounds uranium oxide (lb [U.sub.3][O.sub.8]) x ounces, avoirdupois (avdp oz) x Volume barrels of oil (bbl) x cubic yards ([yd.sup.3]) x cubic feet ([ft.sup.3]) x U.S.
Appendix B. Metric and other physical conversion factors

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