In 2010 the largest exporters were Australia with 328 million tonnes (27.1 of world coal export) and Indonesia with 316 million tonnes (26.1 ), while the largest importers were Japan with 207 million tonnes (17.5 of world coal import), China with 195 million tonnes (16.6 ) and South Korea with 126 million tonnes (10.7 ).

In 2002 North Americans disposed of 24 million tonnes of waste, with residential sources accounting for 9.5 million tonnes.

The mass of the pyramid is estimated at 5.9 million tonnes.

Total reserves of titanium are estimated to exceed 600 million tonnes.

In 2004 alone, China had dealt with 98,000 drug related crimes and seized 10.83 tonnes of heroin, 2.75 tonnes of methamphetamine, 3 million ecstasy tablets and 160 tonnes of precursor chemicals.

The airport has the capacity to handle 70 million passengers and 1.2 million tonnes of cargo a year.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world harvest in 2005 consisted of 93.3 million tonnes captured by commercial fishing in wild fisheries, plus 48.1 million tonnes produced by fish farms.

During 2006, the airport handled 5 million passengers and 220,000 tonnes of cargo.

The maximum designed capacity of the smelter is around 1.2 million tonnes year.

1 GT (or gigatonne) CO2 equivalent means 1,000 million of tonnes of CO2.

2005 170 ODP tonnes 2006 125 ODP tonnes 2007 84.0 ODP tonnes 2008 65.0 ODP tonnes 2009 50.0 ODP tonnes 2010 43.0 ODP tonnes 2011 36.0 ODP tonnes 2012 31.0 ODP tonnes 2013 zero ODP tonnes.

The port has 15 container berths, enabling it to handle 2.5 million tonnes a year.

The Talison mine in Greenbushes, Western Australia has an estimated reserve of 13 million tonnes.

Coastal urban centres are generating annually 30 to 40 million tonnes of municipal solid waste.

In one case, customs simply confused tonnes with kilograms.

Before year 2000, more than 1.6 million tonnes have been used of those alloys with a content of 1 manganese, this amount would need 16,000 tonnes of manganese.

In 1997, the United States Academy of Sciences estimated the total input of marine litter into the oceans, worldwide, at approximately 6.4 million tonnes per year, of which nearly 5.6 million tonnes were estimated to come from merchant shipping.

In 2012, total food consumption was over 26 million metric tonnes, a 94.8 increase from 2003.

A new airport in Almaty expects to handle about 45 million tonnes of cargo each year.

This can be contrasted with 59.9 million tonnes produced in fish farms, plus another 19.0 million tons of aquatic plants harvested in aquaculture.

In 1999, world gross carbon dioxide emissions from coal usage were 8,666 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.

In 1975, 1.5 million tonnes of cargo was handled in the port, which led to severe overcrowding.

Rauma is also the fifth largest port in Finland with almost six million tonnes of shipping per year.

It is estimated that more than a thousand million tonnes of southern Africa's soil are eroded every year.

In 2011 other large producers were United States (993 million tonnes), India (589), European Union (576) and Australia (416).

Hong Kong International Airport is a leading air passenger gateway and logistics hub in Asia and one of the world's busiest airports in terms of international passenger and cargo movement, serving more than 47 million passengers and handling 3.74 million tonnes (4.12 million tons) of cargo in 2007.

Terminal 2 Terminal 2, opened on March 26, 2008, along with the third runway, gives a capacity of 60 million passengers and 4.2 million tonnes of cargo annually.

Estimated production figures for 1997 are United States 784,000 tonnes Western Europe 575,000 tonnes Japan 225,000 tonnes.

In 2000, the use of renewable energy in China led to the avoidance of more than 33 million tonnes of coal combustion.

All except these last four provided a worldwide catch of well over a million tonnes in 1999, with herring and sardines together providing a catch of over 22 million metric tons in 1999.

The total global production of farmed shrimp reached more than 1.6 million tonnes in 2003, representing a value of nearly 9 billion U.S. dollars.

During the 2001 2002 season, tobacco output fell from 239 tonnes in 2001 to 172 tonnes a year later (130 tonnes of tobacco leaf and 42 tonnes of cut tobacco), a reduction of 28 per cent.

The Renewables 2004 conference generated about 3,500 tonnes of GHG (1.44 tonnes CO2 equivalent participant).

MB consumption (metric tonnes)

The 10 day WSSD meeting generated about 290,000 tonnes of CO2 (6.6 tonnes CO2 equivalent participant).

Armenia reported consumption of 1.020 ozone depleting potential ODP tonnes (ODP tonnes) of methyl bromide in 2004.

These projects have a total budget of approximately 406 million and are intended to phase out substances with an ozone depleting potential (ODP) of some 40,000 tonnes.

It is a key species in the Antarctic ecosystem and is, in terms of biomass, probably the most abundant animal species on the planet (approximately 500 million tonnes).

Between 1 April 2004 and 31 March 2005, WFP delivered over 70,000 metric tonnes of food aid to almost 400,000 beneficiaries, at a total expense of 35 million.

Fibre output amounted to 13,333 tonnes, an increase of 32.6 per cent over the 2001 figure of 10,055 tonnes.

Payload will be 20.4 metric tonnes.

It rose to a peak of about 17,600 tonnes in 1998, and recently fell to about 13,400 tonnes in 2002.

By 1956, one million had been sold, then two million by 1960.

About 75 of the 8,000 tonnes (ie. 5,984 tonnes) is scheduled to be eliminated by the end of 2005 while 95 (7,574 tonnes) is scheduled to be eliminated by the end of 2007 (Table 3).

About 75 of the 8,000 tonnes (ie. 5,984 tonnes) is scheduled to be eliminated by the end of 2005 while 95 (7,574 tonnes) is scheduled to be eliminated by the end of 2007 (Table 3).