Editing Making ISK as an Explorer (section)

==Hauling by others on your behalf==
Hauling loot is an activity that many players find tedious.  And for many others, time spent hauling goods would be more profitably spent doing further exploration, even after you pay somebody else for their time to take your loot to market.

There are three major alternatives for contracting other players to do the hauling for you:
* [[Crikey Freight]] is a separate corporation run by Signal Cartel ''alts''. [[File:Crikey Freight Logo.png|200px|thumb|right|[[Crikey Freight|Crikey Freight]]]] It is not subject to war declarations.  Among other activities, it provides hauling services for Signal Cartel members at special rates.  Further details are provided [[Crikey Freight|here]].
* Public courier contracts can be posted from [https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Moving_your_items#Making_a_Private_Courier_Contract the contract creation dialog box].  So long as you set a collateral value bigger than the worth of your loot then this is a relatively safe option.  Should the contracting courier fail to make the delivery, you receive the collatoral as compensation.  In setting up the contract, you need to name the fee you are willing to pay and competitively priced contracts will be accepted quickly and delivered upon.  Public courier prices will, in general, be lower than those with third-party services (see below).
* There are a number of third-party efforts running brokerage-type services between a closed list of haulers in their employ and players in EVE.  The two best known are [https://red-frog.org/ Red-Frog] and [https://www.pushx.net/ Push X].  Their fees will be higher than those of public courier contracts, but reliability and timeliness will be higher.  So for example, in March 2023, Push-X was quoting a fee of 18.3M ISK for a 1000m3 load with collateral up to 1.5B ISK hauled from Turnur (in low-sec) to Dodixie.

For all options, the fees for hauling loot works out as most economical for larger shipments.  Shipping the loot from several explorer runs in one hauling shipment can push the hauling fees down to a few percentage points of the total loot value.