Ton-Mile

ton-mile

[′tən ′mīl]

(civil engineering)

In railroading, a standard measure of traffic, based on the rate of carriage per mile of each passenger or ton of freight.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Ton-Mile

a unit of measurement for freight transportation by oceangoing vessels. Ton-miles are calculated by multiplying the weight of the cargo in tons by the distance traveled by the vessel in nautical miles. In the USSR, the ton-mile is used for planning and calculating the freight turnover of oceangoing vessels. In other types of transport, freight turnover is measured in ton-kilometers (1 nautical mile equals 1.852 km).

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