revenue ton

revenue ton
   or revenue tonne
(RT)
   a unit used for billing in the shipping industry. The size of a shipment in revenue tons is the number of metric tons or the number of cubic meters in the shipment, whichever is larger.

Dictionary of units of measurement. 2015.

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