The name Gigi is of French origin. The meaning of Gigi is farmer. Gigi is generally used as a girl's name. It consists of 4 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Gi-gi.
gross ton includes the weight of the container (tare). net tons are just the weight of the freight Answer A gross tone is a Long ton (or English Ton) 2,240 lbs. A Net ton is a short ton or 2000 lbs. 86 people found this useful.
- with a 60 or 70,000 lb. car it would total 200,000 lbs., and that's about right - maybe a little light - for the early years of that decade. Allowable gross weight for freight cars of 263,000 lbs. = 131.5 tons is pretty nearly standard and universal now.