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net tonnage
noun
- the taxable gross tonnage of a merchant ship.
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.
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.
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.
Her gross tonnage was 32,500 and her net tonnage, 9,145.
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