Tonnes

Tonnes is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms, used to measure large quantities of goods, materials, or substances in various industries and contexts.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to its use in quantifying significant events, such as large-scale autonomous earthmoving operations, commodity storage, gold transfers, and major drug seizures.

Latest on Tonnes

• Full Self Hauling: Volvo moves 3 million tonnes of Earth, autonomously
• Hong Kong’s metal storage hits 30,000 tonnes in push to become global commodity hub
• Dutch shift 86 tonnes of gold from US and Canada to UK over ‘geopolitical unrest’
• Indonesia seizes 2.6 tonnes of meth in major bust
• Indonesia seizes 2.6 tonnes of liquid meth from Tanzanian-flagged ship in record drug bust
• Tonnes of rotting food from vast LA warehouse fire creates unbearable stench

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