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John

Oh, and on the open spot market, the person that makes the most money isn't the owner of a ship, it's the broker back at port. They either work on commission, the client looking to ship something pays them a fee, or they charge a fee for their services to the tramp trader to use their service to find a client. (In many cases, both.) In the big ports, they may be handling dozens of clients each day and twice that in tramps. They make good money at what they do.

John

I do love how the article on "Tramp Traders" emphasizes one of my points. None of those ships buy and sell cargo. They _haul_ cargo. It's a fool's errand to try to trade on the interplanetary, let alone interstellar market. The big trade houses have all the lucrative deals tied up in contracts and connections. The only way you can make any money as a tramp trader is to become one of their contractors and haul their cargo.