Why my cargo ship does not move?

[Aladinon]

Hello, can someone tell me why my cargo ship does not move? I have a trade contract assigned but the ship does not move. What should I do? Also the oil rig is not moving.

[bcrehore]

I can't answer your question about the cargo ship, however, I can about the oil rig. Oil Rigs don't move. They are permanently constructed over an oil deposit, and then drill down into the deposit, and pump the oil into holding tanks (or if close enough to shore, a pipeline) until the oil can be offloaded. Hence the need to continually sail between home and your rig, and load oil.

[steholliday]

What kind of trade contract? Have you hit the 'trade wood for coal' at an Island settlement? if so the goods go into the Trading Dock directly......found that out when I'd forgot about it when I traded gold for microchips & wondered where they where!
If it's one of the other contract trades, can't offer much help as Iv not needed to do any, but I'm sure I read another thread a couple of days back on how to properly set up contracts.

[Aladinon]

@bcrehore
Here I have expressed myself incorrectly. I meant the cargo ship does not move to the oil rig.

[Aladinon]

@steholliday
Yes, it was about the fixed supply contracts. Do you have a link for me?
Greetings

[tr4l1975]

Originally posted by Aladinon:

@bcrehore
Here I have expressed myself incorrectly. I meant the cargo ship does not move to the oil rig.

Do you have the fluid storage modules built for the cargo dock and set to oil? If you do and they are full, you will need to build storage on your island for the modules to empty into. The cargo ship won't go get stuff if there isn't any place to store it.

[Nargon]

Originally posted by Aladinon:

@bcrehore
Here I have expressed myself incorrectly. I meant the cargo ship does not move to the oil rig.

What is the status of the ship? This is very useful for identifying "why it's not moving"
There is useful information, for example:
*Waiting until there is enough cargo to pick up.
*Cargo Ship is low on fuel
I think that pretty much explains what's going on and why the ship isn't moving.

[BMK]

To the OP:
For a trade contract you need to have cargo modules attached to the harbour both for the export and the import goods. My tip is to accept a contract, THEN build the harbour for it. Your problem occurs when you build the harbour first, and assign every module to the export goods. The ship will get loaded alright, but it will likely just load full and not go anywhere. If you did that you will not have the option to completely reassign the cargo modules to the import goods, so you will have to deconstruct them and reconstruct them, then assign the appropriate space to the import goods.

Good luck!