| Zodiac, with about 120 ships, will provide a capesize bulk carrier, ranging in size from 150,000 dwt to 180,000 dwt to ship iron ore from Brazil to Shanghai. |
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| Deadweight, usually abbreviated dwt, represents the cargo carrying capacity of a merchant ship expressed as weight in tonnes. |
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| The banning of carriage of heavy grades of oil will affect all single-hull oil tankers from 600 dwt and above. |
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| It has been estimated that a Canadian merchant ship of 10,000 tonnes dwt could carry enough foodstuffs to feed 225,000 people for a week. |
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| It was customary to donate silver to the college in these circumstances, and his unnecessarily extravagant gift was a monteith weighing no less than 46 oz 10 dwt. |
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| Renewal activity at the beginning of 2002 was higher than in 1985, the industry's peak scrapping year, when 30 million dwt. were sent to the demolition yards. |
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| Between January 2006 and 2007, for the first time since UNCTAD began recording dwt shares, the foreign-flagged share decreased slightly, from 66.5 to 66.35 per cent. |
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| On June 30, it took delivery of the Prince Albert Park, the first of five 10,000 tonne dwt ships it would receive from Canadian shipyards by the end of that year. |
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| The total tonnage of the country's merchant fleet is 202 million dwt, ranked 1st in the world. |
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| Although operating in a niche market of small ships up to 6 000 dwt, SLK is in potential competition at least with a small Polish shipyard, the Dutch Damen shipyard and the German Flensburg shipyard. |
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