The airport also handled 19,500 short tons of air freight per month.
Often, the short ton is used to measure objects that have a very large weight.
Chlorine was priced at $330 per dry short ton, up $130 on 2008's price of $200.
Its mouth is large enough to hold up to 90 tonnes (100 short tons) of food and water.
It is the power required to melt or freeze one short ton of ice per day.
As of October 2008, the price per short ton had declined to $111.50.
The tank had a weight of about fifty short tons.
There are roughly 2 short tons in a cord of wood.
Coal production was at 9.254 million short tons as of 2007.
Extraction in 2006 was a record 1.16 billion short tons.