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Originally Posted by hansz

The warehouses are GREAT way to make money.
When you are in any port you can see two values:

The price of 1 ton warehouse is: x (from 8$ in Sudan to 55$ in Tokyo)
The daily storage cost is: y (from 0.01$ in Sudan to 0.15 in Tokyo)

The "daily storage cost is" is the value that you will be EARNING each day per 1 ton of your's EMPTY warehouse. But beware! Buying good warehouse is not easy because cost/profit are DIFFRENT in every place.

I had made computation of ALL ports' warehouses and oil tanks in the game
and i had created indicator "cost/profit". The results are following:

The value of cost/profit is always somewhere between: 366 and 450.
The usuall average is about ~390. Theofore in order to maximize profit invezstor should buy only those warehouses with cost/profit ratio is as samll as possible.

Examples:

Barcelona:
The price of 1 ton warehouse is: 40$
The daily storage cost is: 0.1$
cost/profit= 40$/0.1$ = 400 [Bad place to buy warehouse]

Sudan:
The price of 1 ton warehouse is: 8$
The daily storage cost is: 0.01$
cost/profit= 8$/0.02$ = 400 [Bad place to buy warehouse]

Dar-Es-Salam:
The price of 1 ton warehouse is: 11$
The daily storage cost is: 0.03$
cost/profit= 11$/0.03$ = 366 [Very low ratio, good warehouse to buy]

Tokyo:
The price of 1 ton warehouse is: 55$
The daily storage cost is: 0.15$
cost/profit= 55$/0.15$ = 366 [Very low ratio, good warehouse to buy]


As you can see, the results can be sometimes quite suprising. I had created list for all warehouses in the game, and I will upload it soon as Excel document.

You can buy maximum of 500.000 tons of warehouse per port. Theofore you can made quite good profit from it even if the price of warehouses seems high.

Example:

Tokyo:
Funds required for buying 500000 tons on warehouse:
500000 * 55$ = 27.500.000
Profit:
Tokyo: 0.15$ *500000 = 75000$ per day
Days required for return of investment: 27.5m/75.000: 367

Dar-es-Salam:
Funds required for buying 500000 tons on warehouse:
500000 * 11$ = 5.500.000
Profit:
Tokyo: 0.03$ *500000 = 15000$ per day
Days required for return of investment: 5.5m/15.000: 367


As you can see on previous examples, the warehouses gives you about 99.5%
Return of Investment per year. Its much more comparing to the investing money in bank (usually about 5% per year). And what is most important: you are earning money EVERY day - theofore you can earn for fuel/port charges while you sailing to your destination. It really help you with cashflow.



Remember to insure the warehouse! Cost of insuring warehouse is ALWAYS 6250$ per 500.000 tons per month.

Example:
Cost of insurance as percent of monthly profit from lending of warehouse:

Tokyo: 6250$/(75000$*30days) = 0.27%
Dar-es-Salam: 6250$/(15000$*30days) = 1.38%



While im still converting my data for Excel spreadsheet, here is the quick hint about few most profitable ports (cost/profit ratio) in the world:

Asia: Tokyo: 55$ / 0.15$ = 366
Australia: Fremanntle: 37$ / 0.1$ = 370
Middle East: Abadan: 15$ / 0.04$ = 370
Africa: Dar-es-Salam: 11$ / 0.03$ = 366
Europe: London: 44$ / 0.12$ = 366
North America: Houston: 52$ / 0.14$ = 371
Central America: Puerto Barrios: 15$ / 0.04$ = 375
South America: Salvador: 26$/ 0.07$ = 371


Enjoy! Hans

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