Shipping :

  Domestic Shipping (DS) :

• DS is an automated method of moving resources between stars and territories that you own.
• To ship to unconnected domestic stars use UTS Shipments
• Shipments may only be made to stars connected by domestic starlanes
  (no foreign stars on the path owned territories).
• Route Path Locks will affect DS shipments when the shipment is configured. Subsequent locks will not apply to existing shipment configurations.
• DS shipping durations will automatically adjust to newly built or disabled/destroyed jumpgates.
• Raiders may capture or prevent shipments.
• Captured shipments are not recoverable.
• Fees equal 1 credit for each multiple of 200 resources per cycle in transit.
• Fees for DS are not charged until the following cycle, so your budget will show the fees prior to them being charged. This also applies to single shipments, you do not lose the credits until CE.
• Use the continuous shipment option to send a shipment just after each cycle end.
• Use DS shipping for :
  • Moving minerals from mining stars to refineries.
  • Moving nanobits from refinery stars to ship production stars.
  • Moving workers and nanobits to build sites.
  • Filling build plan requirements.
  • Gathering assets like tradegoods, luxuries and scrap to a central location for use.
Note : For continuous shipments, DS ships before UTS.

  Universal Transport Service (UTS) :

• UTS is one method of transporting assets.
• Shipping via UTS requires a level 2 spaceport.
• UTS may be used to ship resources, modules and components to/from any of the following :
  • Domestic Stars
  • Realm Territories
  • Council Seat Stars - Sector Markets
  • Foreign Realms - Via the diplomatic agreement UTS Shipment
    Diplomatic UTS shipments may only be made between domestic stars of each realm.
  • From controlled corporate enterprises.
• Purchases at sector markets may be automatically shipped via UTS.
  Other UTS shipments may be sent from the spaceport panel.
• Fees for UTS shipments (per cycle) are :
  • 5 credits per 1k cargo space per cycle.
  • or 15 credits per 5k cargo space per cycle.
  • Include an escort (UTS Corvette) for 10 credits per cycle.
• UTS fleets may not be boarded.
  The International UTS availability agreement (clause 1034.B.86.s) prohibits boarding of UTS corporate fleets. Any transgressions would result in being cut off from access to UTS services.
• UTS fleets may be attacked and the shipments captured. Attack with Anonymous or Privateer flagged fleets, to prevent access being cut to UTS services.
• Once shipped the goods are "owned" by the recipient (at the destination). If the shipment is lost, the owner is notified of the loss, but not what caused the loss.
• If some items are unavailable to ship, on a multiple item type shipment, other items will still be shipped.
• Multiple item type shipments, if cancelled, will cancel all item types on the shipment.
• UTS ships have a high support cost, so those captured should be dismissed ASAP.
• Captured UTS ships may not be scrapped, only dismissed.
• UTS fleets are prime targets for piracy.
• A UTS corvette may optionally be added to the shipment as an escort.
• UTS fleets need to charge before jumping away from the origin star, during this time the shipment may be cancelled on the spaceport panel. No shipping fees are refunded. Once the fleet leaves the origin star the shipment may not be canceled.
• Use the continuous shipment option to send a shipment just after each cycle end.
• Route Path Locks will affect non-diplomatic UTS shipments when the shipment is configured. Subsequent locks will not apply to existing shipment configurations.
• UTS shipments will automatically adjust to newly built or disabled/destroyed jumpgates. Existing shipments will follow the original path, but the ETA may change. A shipment for an existing continuous UTS will also follow the original path.
• At a spaceport or on the shipment ETA report, the shipments are identified by type :

  UTS Shipment Types
  Diplomatic Transfer	A one time shipment from another realm
  Diplomatic Agreement	Multiple cycle shipments from another realm
  Trade Agreement	Tradegoods from another realm
  Market Trade	A purchase at a sector market
  Sent from Spaceport	To / from : A domestic star Territory Corporate Enterprise Sector Market

Shipping Method Comparison :

Shipping Method Comparison
Subject	Realm Fleets	DS	UTS
Destinations	Anywhere	Contiguously connected domestic stars only	Any domestic star, own territory, sector market or foreign realm
Shipable Asset Types	Any	Resources	Resources, Modules and Components
Spaceport required	No	Yes	Yes
Requires initial wait for jump charge	Fleet dependent	Yes	Yes
Fleets visible in game	Yes	No	Yes
Impacted by Blockades and Access permissions	Yes	Yes	No
Shipping cost per cycle CS = Cargo Space	5.9c per 1k CS Standard 1k Freighter or 13.5c per 10k CS Standard 10k Freighter	1 credit per 200 CS	5 credits per 1k CS or 15 credits per 5k CS
Escort cost per cycle	7.5 credits each Standard Corvette	No escorts used	10 credits for a UTS Corvette
Continuous option	with route	Yes	Yes
Shipment Cancellation	Yes	Only while at origin or pending continuous	Only while at origin or pending continuous
Cancellation Method	Fleet/ Item	By Item	Whole Shipment
Budgetary status	Budget Expense Ship Support	Budget Expense Domestic Shipping	Non-Budget Expense UTS Fees