Industries and Cargo

Beside the passengers, cargo transportation is the second mainstay for the companies. There are 36 cargo items in Transport Fever 3:

• 12 raw materials
• 11 intermediate products
• 3 booster products
• 10 end products

The raw materials come from industries that do not depend on incoming cargo. Intermediate products are produced by industries which use incoming cargo to produce material for other industries. Booster products are used by the industries of raw materials to increase production. End products are delivered from industries to industrial and commercial districts in towns depending on their requirements. Some cargo types are used in multiple contexts, e.g. they are demanded by towns as well as they are used for the production of more complex products.

Not all cargo types are available in every climate zone. E.g. the paper mill and printing press exclusively appear in the subarctic climate. At the beginning of a map, not all industries and cargo types are present. Once towns grow, they have additional and more complex demands.

There are 32 different industries in Transport Fever 3. Some of them require the delivery of cargo from other industries to start production, others produce without external needs.

By clicking on a industry in any camera view or any other place where the industry is mentioned,By selecting an industry in the world with the inspector or by selecting an industry’s name in any list and pressing , the industry window pops up. This window provides all the important info about the industry, including the production, input and output stocks, supplier and consumer lists as well as some charts. The later three are explained in the statistics section.

The top section Production of the industry window shows the production rule of the industry. See the list below to find out which industry has which production rule. Raw industries like farms, mines and the logging camps always produce some cargo without requiring input cargo. Other industries like the saw mill, steel mill and brewery need to have some cargo in the input stock to start production. At the top, the basic rule is shown with small ratio numbers. The amount of consumed and produced cargo within the last 365 days and the theoretical maximum per year are shown below.

For raw industries, the amount of plots (fields, plantages, mine shafts etc) has an impact on the production. When such an industry is served well, it will start to expand by adding more plots in the surrounding area. If this area is blocked or existing plots are bulldozed to construct something else, this limits or reduces the production.

Each industry can be boosted by providing a passenger connection to reach the industry. If a sufficient amount of workers show up frequently, the overall throughput of the production increases. When too few workers have recently been at the industry, the worker booster stops again. The Booster section can be expanded to see a list of the workers.

Raw industries have a second way of boosting. By providing enough cargo of a specific booster cargo type (Fertilizer, Machines or Tools), the booster can be started. The booster will consume cargo items from the input stock. The boosting effect will stop once there are not enough items for the booster to run.

The Input Stocks and Output Stocks sections list the current number of items stored in the industry as well as the upper limit. When expanded, they also show a list of potential sources or destinations for the cargo. This is also visualized in the game world by symbolic links. The relations actively used are animated, the others are static.

All produced cargo items stay at the industry where they are produced until they are picked up by a suitable vehicle on a line that is configured to pick up that cargo type at or near the industry. It is up to the player to decide where the cargo is transported to. If cargo is not picked up and the output stock reaches is limit, the production continues anyway, but the excessive cargo items are destroyed. That is also shown in the chart in the bottom section Cargo Flow. Waiting items in the output stock are also shown as a number in the HUD above the industry.

The cargo layer can be used to plan the connections between industry and get a quick overview over the yearly demand and supply across the map.

Over time, additional industries will spawn and unused industries may be abandoned, given that the relevant conditions are met. New industries will spawn when the demand raises high enough or when new cargo types are demanded for the first time.

Unused industries can be abandoned under the following conditions:

• The Industry closure frequency is not set to Never.
• No goods have been consumed/produced in the last 10 years.
• No goods have been shipped from this industry in the last 10 years.
• The industry is not owned by the player.

You will receive a notification if a new industry is spawned or an unused industry is marked for closing respectively. For abandoned industries there is a countdown of 730 days before the industry is effectively closed. This countdown is shown in the notification and additionally above the industry. If the calendar speed is set to paused, real time is shown instead of the number of days. As soon as the countdown is over, the industry will be permanently removed. If the industry starts to consume/produce or ship goods within the countdown, the industry will not be removed and the countdown is stopped.

The table below shows all cargo types that are available in free game mode. Some campaign missions use special cargo types not listed here.

Icon	Cargo	Manufacturer	Consumer	Type	Specialization
	Beverages	Brewery	Commercial District	End Product	Goods
	Books	Printing Press	Commercial District	End Product	Goods
	Bricks	Bricks Works	Industrial District	End Product	Goods
	Canned Food	Food Factory	Commercial District	End Product	Goods
	Cement	Cement Plant	Industrial District	End Product	Bulk
	Chemicals	Oil Refinery	Chemical Plant	Intermediate Product	Liquid
	Clay	Clay Pit	Bricks Works	Raw Material	Bulk
	Clothes	Textile Factory	Commercial District	End Product	Goods
	Coal	Coal Mine	Steel Mill	Raw Material	Bulk
	Crude Oil	Oil Platform Oil Well	Oil Refinery	Raw Material	Liquid
	Dyes	Chemical Plant	Textile Factory Printing Press	Intermediate Product	Liquid
	Fabric	Weaving Mill	Textile Factory	Intermediate Product	Goods
	Fertilizer	Chemical Plant	Cotton Farm Farm Rubber Farm	Booster Product	Bulk
	Fish	Fishing Grounds	Commercial District Food Factory	Raw Material	Goods
	Fuel	Oil Refinery	Industrial District	End Product	Liquid
	Furniture	Furniture Factory	Industrial District	End Product	Goods
	Glass	Glass Works	Furniture Factory Brewery	Intermediate Product	Goods
	Grain	Farm	Livestock Farm	Raw Material	Bulk
	Iron Ore	Iron Ore Mine	Steel Mill	Raw Material	Bulk
	Logs	Logging Camp	Saw Mill	Raw Material	Flatbed
	Machines	Machine Factory	Industrial District Vehicle Factory Logging Camp Iron Ore Mine Oil Well Sand Excavator	Booster Product	Flatbed
	Meat	Livestock Farm	Commercial District Food Factory	Raw Material	Goods
	Paper	Paper Mill	Printing Press	Intermediate Product	Goods
	Planks	Saw Mill	Industrial District Furniture Factory Tool Factory	Intermediate Product	Flatbed
	Plastic	Chemical Plant	Tool Factory Machine Factory	Intermediate Product	Goods
	Rubber	Rubber Farm	Tire Factory	Raw Material	Liquid
	Sand	Sand Excavator Sand Pit	Glass Works	Raw Material	Bulk
	Sawdust	Saw Mill	Paper Mill	Intermediate Product	Bulk
	Sheet Metal	Steel Mill	Food Factory Vehicle Factory	Intermediate Product	Flatbed
	Steel	Steel Mill	Machine Factory	Intermediate Product	Flatbed
	Stone	Quarry	Cement Plant	Raw Material	Bulk
	Tires	Tire Factory	Vehicle Factory	Intermediate Product	Goods
	Tools	Tool Factory	Industrial District Clay Pit Coal Mine Fishing Grounds Oil Platform Quarry Sand Pit	Booster Product	Goods
	Vegetables	Farm	Commercial District	End Product	Goods
	Vehicles	Vehicle Factory	Industrial District	End Product	Flatbed
	Wool	Cotton Farm Livestock Farm	Weaving Mill	Raw Material	Goods

The table below shows all industries that are available in free game mode. Some campaign missions use individual industries not listed here.

Icon	Name	Production	Booster	Temperate	Dry	Tropical	Subarctic
	Brewery	8 3 ➔ 8	-	✔	✔		✔
	Brick Works	4 ➔ 4	-	✔	✔
	Cement Plant	4 ➔ 2	-			✔	✔
	Chemical Plant	6 ➔ 2 5	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Clay Pit	1-16		✔	✔
	Coal Mine	1-16		✔	✔	✔	✔
	Cotton Farm	1-12		✔		✔
	Crop Farm	1-24 1-16		✔	✔	✔	✔
	Fishing Grounds	1-12		✔		✔	✔
	Canning Factory	2 or 2 and 1 ➔ 2	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Furniture Factory	4 1 ➔ 2		✔	✔	✔	✔
	Glass Works	4 ➔ 2	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Iron Ore Mine	1-16	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Livestock Farm	7 ➔ 3 4		✔	✔	✔	✔
	Logging Camp	1-8	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Machine Factory	7 4 ➔ 7	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Oil Platform	1-4		✔	✔	✔	✔
	Oil Refinery	4 ➔ 2 1 4	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Oil Well	1-6		✔	✔	✔	✔
	Paper Mill	4 ➔ 2	-				✔
	Printing Press	4 2 ➔ 4	-				✔
	Quarry	1-16		✔	(✔)	✔	✔
	Rubber Farm	1-32				✔
	Sand Excavator	1-8		✔		✔	✔
	Sand Pit	1-8		✔	✔	✔	✔
	Saw Mill	4 ➔ 4 8	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Steel Mill	6 6 ➔ 4 3	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Textile Factory	4 2 ➔ 3	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Tire Factory	4 ➔ 2	-			✔
	Tool Factory	4 2 ➔ 5	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Vehicle Factory	1 4 1 ➔ 1	-	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Weaving Mill	4 ➔ 4	-	✔	✔	✔	✔