Meaning of metric tonne | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Loans to Vietnam […] Loans/credits: 1. Agreement dated 21-11-77 extending an interest-free loan of 1,00,000 metric tonnes of wheat in the form of 70,000 metric tonnes of wheat flour. 2. Agreement dated 26-2-78 extending Rs. 10 crores credit for importing from India rolling stock for the Vietnamese Railways and such other goods as may be mutually agreed upon.”

“Tables 13 and 14 depict the major world trade areas for each of the South Atlantic Coast ports for total metric tonnes of imports and exports, respectively, and their historic growth from 1995 to 2003 and projected growth from 2003 to 2050. For example, the predominant trade regions for Charleston Harbor total metric tonnes of imports (Table 13) in 2003 (9.960 million tonnes) are East Coast of South America (2.325 million tonnes), North Europe (2.262 million tonnes), and, to a lesser extent, North East Asia (1.177 million tonnes). Charleston Harbor metric tonnes of imports (all commodities) are expected to grow 7.40 percent between 2003 and 2004 and 8.44 percent between 2004 and 2005, then at an average annual rate of 5.48 percent between 2005 and 2010, slowing to an average annual rate of growth of 3.37 percent between 2010 and 2015, and growing at an average annual rate of less than 3 percent between 2015 and 2050. Although the average annual growth rates vary among the ports (Charleston, Jacksonville, Miami, Wilmington, and Norfolk), there is an apparent basic pattern of declining growth of total metric tonnes of imports after 2005 expressed as an average annual compound growth rate.”

“On a damp and blustery morning, three-metre swells crash into the cracked hull of the MSC Baltic III, which was grounded on a pinnacle of rock on the west coast of Newfoundland earlier this year. The wind carries whiffs of rotten egg. Salvage crews in hard hats and neon yellow jackets inch along in a temporary cable car suspended high over the churning Atlantic. In a province with a long and dangerous maritime history, the Baltic's grounding in the roiling shallows of Cedar Cove last February is a story Newfoundlanders retell with incredulity. The cargo ship, en route to Corner Brook from Montreal, lost power in the early morning of Feb. 15 during a ferocious blizzard. The ship, packed with hundreds of containers of lumber, textiles, plastic beads, legumes and car parts, plus 1,600 metric tonnes of fuel, careered into the only safe harbour along a coast of towering cliffs. All 20 crew members were airlifted off the ship in a harrowing rescue by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Over the following months, salvage crews offloaded most of the 470 containers and siphoned out the fuel, which had hardened into an asphalt-like substance, in a multistage operation that involved heating it for days. At risk were local wildlife — migratory birds and the capelin and lobster that local fish harvesters rely on for their livelihoods. The goal of the work is to ready the ship for eventual dismantling and removal from the shoreline.”

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