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kilogram-kilometre (kg⋅km), moving 1 kg of cargo a distance of 1 km; tonne-kilometre or kilometre-tonne ( t⋅km or km⋅t , also tkm or kmt ), the transportation of one tonne over one kilometre ; 1 tkm = 1,000 kgkm.
A FedEx Express Boeing 777F taxiing at Narita International Airport in Tokyo, Japan in 2012 A Volga-Dnepr Airlines An-124 cargo aircraft ready for loading in 2008 Global air transport by country and freight level as of 2017 (ton-km) [1] Air cargo is any property carried or to be carried in an aircraft. Air cargo comprises air freight, air ...
A freight rate (historically and in ship chartering simply freight [1]) is a price at which a certain cargo is delivered from one point to another. The price depends on the form of the cargo, the mode of transport (truck, ship, train, aircraft), the weight of the cargo, and the distance to the delivery destination.
The world's thirty busiest airports by cargo traffic for various periods (data provided by Airports Council International). Numbers listed refer to loaded and unloaded freight in metric tonnes , including transit freight.
Payload: [8] 7,667 kg 8 racks with 2 x 0.314 m 3 and 2 x 0.414 m 3; Envelope: each 1.146 m 3 in front of 4 of these 8 racks; Cargo mass: Dry cargo: 1,500 - 5,500 kg; Water: 0 – 840 kg; Gas (Nitrogen, Oxygen, air, 2 gases/flight): 0 – 100 kg; ISS Refueling propellant: 0 – 860 kg (306 kg of fuel, 554 kg of oxidizer)
This is a list of the busiest seaports by cargo tonnage, the total mass, or in some cases volume, of actual cargo transported through the port. The rankings are based on AAPA world port ranking data.
Dimensional weight, also known as volumetric weight, is a pricing technique for commercial freight transport (including courier and postal services), which uses an estimated weight that is calculated from the length, width and height of a package.
This stevedoring process became more efficient by grouping cargo into containers, 1,000 to 3,000 cubic feet (28 to 85 m 3) of cargo, or up to about 64,000 pounds (29,000 kg), is moved at once and each container is secured to the ship once in a standardized way. [5]