Deadweight tonnage refers to the maximum weight of cargo that a vessel can carry while maintaining its design draft in the water. For instance, in a sentence, ‘The container ship was able to carry an additional 500 deadweight tonnes of cargo, which helped increase the profitability of the shipping line.’
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