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Industrial ships are designed for hauling. They have much larger cargo holds than other ships of similar size.

Hauler

Haulers[1], previously known as Tech 1 industrials, can be divided into three classes:

  • Fast transports, which are used to move low-volume, high-value goods quickly and safely.
  • Bulk transports, which have a much higher capacity than the fast transports, but are slower and have less tank.
  • Specialized transports, which are similar to bulk transports in terms of tank and agility but have an extra, specialized, very large, hold that can carry only one type of item (such as ammunition or minerals)

For example, the Wreathe (Minmatar fast transport) can be fit to align in as little as 4 seconds while having 22k EHP, but would only have a cargo capacity of up to 4,622  m3. On the opposite end of the spectrum, a Bestower (Amarr bulk transport) can be fit to carry up to 39k  m3 but will take at least 13 seconds to align and have less than 8k EHP. To that end, fast transports can be fit to transport material through lowsec relatively safely, whereas bulk transports should be restricted to systems known to be safe unless accompanied by an escort, e.g. an OOC alt.

For fitting, industrials tend to have base powergrid around the level of destroyers and quite high amounts of CPU, which is mostly used by a shield tank. The low slots are often filled with expanded cargoholds, though these can be swapped out with inertial stabilizers or nanofiber internal structures for smaller hauls to increase agility, thereby decreasing align time and cutting down a little on travel time. Agility mods are especially important on fast transports operating in low security space. If you are looking to do a lot of distribution missions or otherwise do a lot of traveling, warp speed rigs (Hyperspatial Velocity Optimizers) can cut travel time by more than half.

Each race has its own haulers, which require their racial hauler skill - for example, Icon skillbook2.png Amarr Hauler. Alpha clones are limited to one skill level of their racial hauler. The haulers get 5% bonuses to cargo capacity and either agility (fast transports) or velocity (bulk transports) per level of skill. You receive a free fast transport when you complete the Industrialist (Producer) career agent mission Making Mountains of Molehills (10 of 10).

The four races do not all have the same number of haulers, and which race's haulers will offer the highest cargo capacity depends on the amount of training time you are prepared to invest.

Amarr

The Bestower offers you the best potential cargo capacity for general cargo but has less than 8k EHP when fit this way. Meanwhile the Sigil is an overall poor industrial ship.

Caldari

The Badger has the highest base cargo capacity of the fast transports. The Tayra has the least potential capacity of the bulk transports but the highest base capacity and highest tank, however it is outperformed in fast, secure hauling by the Badger and in bulk hauling by the other races' bulk transports.

Minmatar

The Minmatar haulers are significantly faster than other haulers in the same ship class. They manage this speed without sacrificing tank or cargo capacity, making them ideal for doing distribution missions or even for lowsec hauling.

Gallente

The Gallente have several specialized ships (which have vast specialized bays but can only transport specific kinds of items in them), while the non-specialized fast/bulk transports give good all-round performance.

Transport ship

Transport ships[3], previously known as tech 2 industrials, can be divided in two types with different foci. Both of these ship types require the Transport Ships skill.

Blockade Runners

Main article: Blockade Runner

Primary use: Relatively small and/or very expensive cargo through lowsec/nullsec/w-space.

Blockade runners are the fastest and most agile industrial ships by quite a margin. They can align as quickly as a frigate, are some of the fastest ships in EVE at warp speeds, and even at sub-light speeds they can fly as quickly as a fast cruiser. Additionally, they can fit covert ops cloaking devices (and hence can warp while cloaked). This means that the only real danger to a properly fitted and flown blockade runner are the warp disruption bubbles in nullsec and w-space.

They can carry a little less cargo than the fast transport haulers, but can be fitted to carry up to about 10,000m3 of cargo (enough to carry a packaged cruiser) at the cost of reduced agility and/or speed.

Deep Space Transports

Primary use: Very bulky, expensive cargo through highsec or scouted lowsec.

Unlike blockade runners, deep space transports (DST) have a larger capacity than their hauler equivalents. They also have a fleet hangar that holds (base) 50,000m³. They have bonuses to active tanking, either shield resistances or armor resistances, helping them to fit substantial buffer tanks. Finally, they get a unique role bonus of 100% to overheating benefits of Afterburners, Microwarpdrives, Local Repair Modules, and Resistance Modules.

They also have a role bonus of +2 warp strength: this means they can't be tackled by just one warp disruptor or non-faction warp scrambler, though they can still be caught by bubbles, gangs of tacklers or HICs.

Where blockade runners are meant to rely on speed and stealth to slip by the enemy, deep space transports are designed to bust their way through the enemy, relying on their warp strength and tanking abilities to escape. This probably won't work against a determined and well-prepared gatecamp, and using a deep space transport indicates to all and sundry that you have cargo you want to protect, so you should think carefully before deploying one.

All DSTs have a base 50k m³ (60k m³ with the Transport Ships skill trained to IV) fleet hangar which can hold any type of cargo, assembled ships, or even packaged battleships. As such, fitting these ships for cargo is redundant since cargo rigs and modules only affect the much smaller main cargo bay. DSTs should be fit and skilled into to play to their active tanking and overheating bonuses in order to maximize survivability, as these ships will primarily be used to transport large quantities of high-value goods.

Freighters

Primary use: Moving massive freight through hisec, often between trade hubs.

Freighters are the ultimate cargo carrying ships, with vast cargo holds. Freighters can often be spotted on New Eden's major highsec trade routes, while the Tech 2 jump freighters are used to transport cargo out to nullsec. All freighters have no high, mid, or rig slots but with the Kronos expansion received 3 low slots, with restrictive CPU and Powergrid to limit the available modules with a role bonus to Reinforced Bulkheads. A freighter pilot's only other way of enhancing their ship's performance is via hardwiring implants.

Freighters are subject to certain restrictions: Assembled containers and assembled secure containers cannot be put in a freighter's cargo hold, so that pilots can't use containers to increase freighters' cargo capacity in the same way that they're used to increase the capacity of haulers.

Use Freighters for huge cargo through high sec and very short distances into low sec. These require proper support (someone to web for faster aligns, scouts, preferably some EW).

The four Tech 1 general freighters are good for carrying very large amounts of cargo in high security space. They align and warp too slowly to be safely used in lowsec or nullsec. Freighters are very tough, but they are definitely not immune to suicide ganking -- organized and prepared groups of gankers can and do kill freighters.

The Tech 1 ORE Freighter is specialized in carrying assembled ships, and is used widely for transporting Incursion ships through high security space.

All five freighters get 5% bonuses to cargo capacity (or ship maintenance bay in the case of the Bowhead) and velocity per level of their pilot's racial freighter skill (Icon skillbook2.png Amarr Freighter, Icon skillbook2.png Gallente Freighter, etc.). Since you must train the freighter skill to at least level I, the base capacity of the ship is only used to calculate the actual capacity. It is worth noting that the Caldari freighters with Caldari Freighter IV can hold more than any other freighter, even with their respective freighter skills trained to V.

With the Kronos update, freighters and jump freighters all gained 3 low slots and reductions in cargo capacity. They can be fit to surpass their pre-Kronos cargo capacities with expanded cargoholds at the expense of tank. The tendency for freighter pilots to fit for maximum ISK rather than maximum tank and then proceed to autopilot their freighters between trade hubs led to widespread ganking. As such, it is strongly recommended that pilots who unwisely opt to autopilot their ships fit reinforced bulkheads instead in order to protect their investments.

The Isis amarr.pngProvidence has

  • A cargo hold starting at a base of 435,000 m3 and a max of 1,127,015 m3
  • A velocity starting at a base of 70 m/s
  • Second most agile and second highest EHP.

The Isis caldari.pngCharon has

  • The largest cargo hold of the group, starting at a base of 465,000 m3 and a max of 1,204,741 m3
  • The slowest velocity of the group, started at a base 60 m/s
  • Least agile of the group.

The Isis gallente.pngObelisk has

  • A cargo hold starting at a base of 440,000 m3 and a max of 1,139,969 m3
  • A velocity starting at a base of 65 m/s
  • Highest EHP of the group.

The Isis minmatar.pngFenrir has

  • The same size cargo hold as the Providence, starting at a base of 435,000 m3 and a max of 1,127,015 m3
  • The fastest velocity of the group, started at a base 80 m/s)
  • Most agile of the group.

The Isis ore.pngBowhead has

  • A negligible general cargo hold of 4,000 m3
  • An enormous Ship Maintenance Bay of 1,600,000 m3
  • A velocity starting at a base of 65 m/s

Freighter Capacity

Freighter Base (m3) Skill I Skill II Skill III Skill IV Skill V
Isis amarr.pngProvidence 435,000 456,750 478,500 500,250 522,000 543,750
Isis caldari.pngCharon 465,000 488,250 511,500 534,750 558,000 581,250
Isis gallente.pngObelisk 440,000 462,000 484,000 506,000 528,000 550,000
Isis minmatar.pngFenrir 435,000 456,750 478,500 500,250 522,000 543,750

Jump Freighters (T2 Freighter)

Main article: Jump Freighters

The Tech 2 versions of freighters, jump freighters, have a reduced cargo capacity but are capable of using cynosural fields to jump long distances. They are also able to use stargates like normal ships. (Since cynosural fields cannot be lit in highsec, jump freighters travelling in highsec have to use stargates.) This makes them ideal supply ships for people who live in nullsec.

Jump freighters get 5% bonuses to cargo capacity and agility per level of the pilot's racial freighter skill, and 10% bonuses to shield, armor and hull hitpoints for each level the pilot has in Jump Freighters. The Jump Freighters skill also gives them a 10% per level reduction in jump fuel needs.

Jump Freighter Capacity

Freighter Base (m3) Skill IV Skill V
Isis amarr.pngArk 135,000 162,000 168,750
Isis caldari.pngRhea 144,000 172,800 180,000
Isis gallente.pngAnshar 137,500 165,000 171,875
Isis minmatar.pngNomad 132,000 158,400 165,000

Use Jump Freighters to carry cargo from the high/low sec border to wherever it is needed in null sec and back again. Caldari freighters are the largest, closely followed by Gallente, then Amarr and lastly Minmatar, which is partially compensated for by lower fuel use. The difference is not large though.

Jump freighters have much larger potential tanks than Tech 1 freighters when properly fit, but at the cost of a much reduced cargo bay. All jump freighters can exceed 500,000 EHP in tank, which makes ganking them in highsec extraordinarily difficult and expensive.

Comparison Table for EVE Industrial Ships

EVE Industrial Ships Click on Column Header to Sort
Name Level Faction Cargo Velocity m/sec Inertia Warp AUs Shield HP Armor HP Hull HP Extra
Sigil T1 Amarr 2100 125 0.86 4.5 780 1900 2400
Bestower T1 Amarr 4800 110 0.95 3 450 850 940
Badger T1 Caldari 3900 127 0.84 4.5 1440 750 2060
Tayra T1 Caldari 7300 115 0.97 3 1100 550 810
Wreathe T1 Minmatar 2900 140 0.81 4.5 1140 1000 2900
Hoarder T1 Minmatar 500 130 0.85 3 840 800 1200 41000 ammo
Mammoth T1 Minmatar 5500 120 0.91 3 640 600 935
Nereus T1 Gallente 2700 130 0.78 4.5 960 1050 2600
Kryos T1 Gallente 550 120 0.92 3 600 700 970 43000 minerals
Epithal T1 Gallente 550 120 0.9 3 580 740 1000 45000 comodities
Miasmos T1 Gallente 550 120 0.94 3 590 710 950 42000 ore
Iteron Mark V T1 Gallente 5800 105 0.87 3 540 650 970
Prorator T2 Amarr 2900 170 0.52 6 800 2000 2100 cloaked
Crane T2 Caldari 4300 160 0.51 6 2100 1000 1900 cloaked
Viator T2 Gallente 3600 165 0.54 6 1000 1700 2700 cloaked
Prowler T2 Minmatar 3500 220 0.485 6 1500 1500 1700 cloaked
Impel T2 Amarr 3100 90 1.0 3.3 2000 4300 4500 50000 hangar
Bustard T2 Caldari 5000 80 1.0 3.3 4300 2300 4000 50000 hangar
Occator T2 Gallente 3900 110 1.0 3.3 2400 4000 5000 50000 hangar
Mastodon T2 Minmatar 4500 120 1.0 3.3 4000 2800 3100 50000 hangar
Providence T1 Amarr 435000 70 0.063 1.37 10000 46000 100000 freighter
Charon T1 Caldari 465000 60 0.063 1.37 50000 15000 77500 freighter
Obelisk T1 Gallente 440000 65 0.063 1.37 14000 40000 110000 freighter
Fenrir T1 Minmatar 435000 80 0.063 1.37 48000 22000 65000 freighter
Ark T2 Amarr 135000 84 0.055 1.5 12000 55200 120000 jump
Rhea T2 Caldari 144000 72 0.055 1.5 60000 18000 93000 jump
Anshar T2 Gallente 137500 78 0.055 1.5 16800 48000 132000 jump
Nomad T2 Minmatar 132000 96 0.055 1.5 57600 26400 78000 jump
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Notes

  1. ^ To be found in the market under Haulers and Industrial Ships - Standard Haulers
  2. ^ A mining hold allows for all harvestable resources to be held inside it (asteroid & moon ore, gas, and ice)
  3. ^ To be found in the market under Haulers and Industrial Ships - Advanced Haulers - Transport Ships