Johannes replied to me: > I guess for large and regular freight, there can be shemes like that the > lower tech world exports plastic stuff and imports plastic junk, as > rawmaterial to make more plastic exports.
The problem with this scheme is that it takes both incoming and outgoing shipping capacity, so it has to make as much profit as the shipping costs. If there is a trade imbalance going one way, the freight can be carried for a dime, just to reduce losses. > Organic waste will definitly > need to be transported to Agragrarian worlds, since somehow the food they > export needs to come back. Why can't the agricultural world accept that mass loss? On the planetary scale, it isn't much. I was thinking of carrying organic waste/fertilizer to vacuum worlds to make up for less-than-perfect recycling systems. > However thoose trades will have only rarely have any direct effects on the > classic pc tramp frighters, as long as freight prices work like outlined > in Gurps-traveller-Free Trader, since the trampfrighters get mostly > freight that is sent on short notice. Garbage will likely not apeare on > short notice, and in most cases it can be stored for long times for little > cost*. So garbage transports will most likely go to regular lines. Unless the PCs have half their hold full of well-paid freight that needs to go NOW, and nothing better is available in the right direction. Then they go to the Garbage Spot Market and underbid anybody else. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
