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Originally posted by another_guest @ Nov 2 2006, 10:50 AM

Passenger ships are awesome once you manage to buy them...
You can easily get over 10-15 million income from 1 trip. Just make sure to transport passengers over the longest possible distance: income = # passengers * distance
Maintenance costs and times are huge though, so keep some other ships to keep your cash flow steady during these maintenance intervals.

I borrowed $280 million to buy a passenger ship, and paid it off over a year. Boy, did my freighters etc have to work to pay it back, but I did manage to without going bankrupt or having a ship seized, but it was close in the last few months. I am now expecting it to be ready in the next few months, in game time.

Another route I have found profitable is Grain to Casablanca, or most African ports, and back with Phosphates, with a bulk freighter, to Adelaide.

I have a refrigerator ship running from San Francisco with tropical fruit, and if that doesn't fill up the hold, then meat usually, to either Madras or Colombo depending who has enough Tea. I was running Tropical Fruit to Europe, and back to Los Angeles with meat, but availability became an issue, so I switched to this route.

One of my coastal freighters were "suprised" by a typhoon or something, and then sank before it could even get to it's destination. I thought that wasn't very nice, I haven't replaced it yet, don't know if I will. I might buy a larger freighter and put it to work on a route once the passenger liner is in service.

B.