How to export excess goods?

[XavierTheRocketeer]

I have a large amount of wood industry in my city, and the production tab says I produce an excess of tens of tons, the diagram shows that that excess is being exported. However, I don't really feel the exportation. I am not getting any money for the wood, not at least according to anything in the budgeting tab, and I even build a train network including a cargo terminal but I only see import, not export trucks going there (at least according to the menu I get when I click on these trucks to inspect them)
So how do I make my city, you know, actually export something and make money?

[TypicalCasual]

could the reason why you didnt feel the exportation due to you not having a cargo hub? cuz im pretty sure it's way cheaper for u to export goods via train/ship/airplanes instead of trucks

[Eltoron]

At first - when your industry export something - it's the industry who get this money. Not you. So the industry develops faster. You will never get profit from export. Think as a mayor, not as owner. You get taxes, provides infrastructure to you business to let them develop so you can get taxes.

[Stealthy]

You won't get money from the exports, businesses do. But you get increased tax from their profits. After all, you run a city, not a private business.

Exporting via trains, ships and planes only happen when there is enough to export plus it makes financial sense for companies to do so.

This isn't C:S1, forget the logic you learned from it.

[GMamba]

My cargo harbor does not export too, despite having excess industrial production.
@Stealthy What do you mean by "makes financial sense" for companies to export?

[Stealthy]

Originally posted by GMamba:

My cargo harbor does not export too, despite having excess industrial production.
@Stealthy What do you mean by "makes financial sense" for companies to export?

Transportation costs money. If the cost to export is too high, stuff is stored and sold locally.

Harbour and cargo station act as a warehouse too and they use trucks as much as they can for exports. Only after being over 50% full, they start using larger means. Think it like "balanced mode" in old C:S1 warehouses.

This game really doesn't work like the old one, forget the way you did industry and related actions in it.

Edit: Also, if company wealth is poor, it can't afford to export.

[Derbtastic]

I thought the export system was bugged

[Stealthy]

Originally posted by Calicrook:

I thought the export system was bugged

Doesn't seem so. May have few minor bugs but in general it works.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Calicrook:

I thought the export system was bugged

It's affected by the same bug that results in Cims heading to neighbouring towns for school rather than your shiny new local school. Essentially the distance calculation is missing a weighting for local vs external, so businesses assess the cargo hub (and it's external import/export routes) on the same criteria they would a local store or warehouse before deciding where to sell their goods. In extremis this can result in a factory next to your cargo hub only ever importing and exporting and ignoring local supply and demand.