freight tonnage

Hence, fewer are needed to dock the same freight tonnage.

Without adequate funding, rail cannot meet future freight tonnage load.

Between the end of the war and 1970, New York area railroads lost half their freight tonnage.

According to official figures, in 1987 Albania's roadways carried about 66 percent of the country's total freight tonnage.

Bernet also doubled the railroad's total freight tonnage and average speeds system wide, while cutting fuel consumption in half.

The table below records the performance of the Railways Department in terms of freight tonnage:

It found that only 1 percent of freight tonnage on Long Island was handled by rail, while nationally the figure was 15 percent.

Although both freight tonnage and passenger traffic increased during the war year, airplanes and truckers began to compete for priority mail.

Trucks haul nearly 100 percent of consumer goods and 69 percent of all freight tonnage in the United States.

Until around 1965 RF&P originated less than 5% of its freight tonnage, probably less than any other Class I railroad.

Coal represents 38 percent of all rail freight tonnage, and a strike of even a few days could have forced layoffs of possibly thousands of miners.

Industry executives attribute a recent slump in orders to a strong dollar, growing pessimism among truck operators about the economy and reduced freight tonnage on the nation's highways.

The TRR had higher than average freight tonnage due to building of the automobile causeway to LBI.

Passenger services ceased on 9 February 1931, and due to declining freight tonnages, the Browns-Hedgehope section that passed through Springhills was closed on 24 December 1953.

The freight handled by motor vehicles, mainly trucks, in 1990, was over 6 billion tonnes, accounting for 90 percent of domestic freight tonnage and about 50 percent of tonne-kilometres.

From its inception in 1982 coinciding with land transport deregulation, the Railways Corporation struggled to retain market share, and its performance in terms of freight tonnage carried reflected this:

Over the same period BR's annual freight tonnage fell only marginally, from 169 million tonnes to 149 million tonnes, so the reduction in size of the wagon fleet was a remarkable achievement.

Due to an increased demand for freight tonnage during the Great War, Robert Rix & Sons increased revenue and profit throughout the period and invested in a ship building programme to modernise its fleet.

However as late as 1852, the canal carried thirteen times more freight tonnage than all the railroads in New York State combined; it continued to compete well with the railroads through 1902, when tolls were abolished.

Lunga's proposal arose following the serious loss of traffic suffered by BR following the opening of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo line, after which annual BR freight tonnage fell from 1.1m per annum to about 150,000.

According to The New York Times, Smith had consolidated the largest pool of railroads in the United States history to this date, which carried over half of national freight tonnage over 80,000 miles of main lines.

However, despite further Grand Trunk investments in depot facilities, improved roadbeds and heavier track, the increased freight tonnage, passengers and income did not keep pace with the more rapidly increasing costs, so that net losses increased year by year.

Construction also required replacement of a stretch of highway and the closure of the Otago Central Railway beyond Clyde, though materials for the dam would provide significant traffic for the rest of the line which was experiencing a drop in freight tonnage.

Agricultural lime was the predominant traffic from Browns, and when government subsidies for the transport of lime by rail were slashed and the railway link (the Tokanui Branch) to the primary destination for Browns lime was closed, freight tonnages fell below sustainable levels.