Everything about Deadweight Tonnage totally explained
Deadweight tonnage (also known as
deadweight and variously abbreviated as
DWT,
D.W.T.,
d.w.t., or
dwt) is a measure of how much
mass or
weight of cargo or burden a ship can safely carry. Deadweight tonnage was historically expressed in
long tons but is now largely replaced internationally by
tonnes (known in US law as metric tons); one long ton is 1.01605 tonnes. Deadweight tonnage isn't a measure of the ship's displacement and shouldn't be confused with terms such as
gross register tonnage,
net tonnage, or
displacement.
Deadweight tonnage at any given time is defined as the sum of the weights or masses of cargo, fuel, fresh water, ballast water, provisions, passengers and crew.
The term is often used to denote
maximum deadweight tonnage. This is the deadweight tonnage when the ship is fully loaded, such that its
Plimsoll line is at the point of submersion.
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