Commodities

This is an incomplete list of commodities and cargo items found in the game. The prices are reflective of the Common Trade Route listed. While there may be higher or lower prices in certain systems these are found to be the most profitable and most efficient based on the time it takes per run. Please take the time to profit ratio into account before posting recommendations.

Items listed as Perishable and Highly Perishable degrade over time. If you are carrying these items you will notice a slowly decreasing bar under the icon. This shows the spoilage of one unit of cargo. When the bar reaches zero one unit will be deducted form your cargo and the bar will fill again for the next unit of cargo. During a normal run (For example New London to Denver or Kurile to Cambridge) you can expect to lose about 10 units of cargo depending on trade lane disruptions and your docking quickness.

Commodities

Commodity Name	Route Purchase price	Route Sell Price	Common Trade Route
Alien Organisms (highly perishable)	$600	$1,800	Planet Kurile (Sigma-17) --> Cambridge Research Station (Cambridge) : VIPs-Return Trip
Artifacts (illegal in Liberty)
Basic Alloy
Beryllium
Boron
Cardamine (contraband)
Cobalt
Construction Machinery
Consumer Goods
Copper
Diamonds
Engine Components
Fertilizer
Food Rations
Jump Gate / Trade Lane Parts
Gold
H-Fuel
High Temperature Alloy
Hydrocarbons
Light Arms
Luxury Consumer Goods
Luxury Food (highly perishable)			Planet New London (New London) --> Planer Denver (Colorado System) : Optronics-Return Trip
Mining Machinery
MOX (perishable)
Niobium
Optical Chips
Optronics
Oxygen
Pharmaceuticals
Polymers
Scrap Metal
Sirius Credit Card	--	--	No profit between systems
Hull Panels
Silver
Super Alloy
Superconductors
Terraforming Gases
Toxic Waste
VIPs (5 cargo space per unit)	$4,850	$10,499	Cambridge Research Station (Cambridge) --> Planet Kurile (Sigma-17) : Alien Organisms-Return Trip
Water

References

Dustin Shaffer: http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/913966/23875