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Tonnage is a measurement of shipping or cargo capacity, by volume
Despite its name's derivation from the similar unit of mass (the ton), tonnage is a measure of shipping capacity by volume. It is a more exact measure of volume capacity than the similarly used Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit (TEU).



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