African Ports, frozen goods and first post

Sixdirham

I used to play POC on AMIGA and found this modern version completely by chance, and was too happy to contribute to the success of this great game by getting the Platinum License

I'm having a ball adding new ports and goods, haven't done ships, that is next.

I'm a commodity trader, dealing in frozen meats (beef, poultry, pork), exporting mainly towards West Africa

I would like to contribute the following to the POC community
- African Ports (there are a few already)
- Establishing the frozen meat trade routes (import and export)

I hope to be able to feed this thread with infos, that can be used by the ones who are better then me at programming ports and goods.

Sixdirham · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:14 pm Post subject:

Frozen meat is huge business being done either bulk or in 40' refer container, very rarely 20'.
I will not go over board and differentiate between beef, buffalo , pork, chicken, turkey that would make it too complex, although if at one point someone wants to create those specific goods, I will gladly provide the relevant data.

Main North American Ports from where frozen meats are exported:

CANADA
- Toronto (containers)
- Montreal (containers)
- Vancouver (containers)

USA
USEC +Gulf
- Port Elisabeth (or NY depending how you programmed your game) (containers)
- Norfolk (containers)
- Charleston (containers)
- Savannah (containers and bulk)
- New Orleans (bulk)
- Mobile (bulk)
- Houston (containers)
USWC
- Los Angeles (containers)
- Oakland (containers)
- Portland (containers)
- Seattle (containers)

Zootier · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:24 pm Post subject:

Nearly all important african harbours are allready done! Look on my webside and on bigbears side for them.

The good "Frozen Meat" is allready done by Bearsie.

There is no way to define wich cargoes are accepted by a port. Only the exported cargoes can be defined.
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Sixdirham · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject:

Absolutly major african ports are already there, I know of a few that could be added

Sixdirham · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject:

Main South American ports from where frozen meats are exported:

BRAZIL:
- Santos (containers)
- Rio Grande (containers + bulk)
- Sao Francisco do Sul (containers)
- Paranagua (containers + bulk)
- Itajaï (containers + bulk)

ARGENTINA
- Buenos Aires (containers + bulk)

URUGUAY
- Montevideo (containers + bulk)

aries1470 · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:19 am Post subject:

Hi Sixdirham,

So which ports were you thinking of that have not been done by others and are not available at Zootier's site or Bigbears, Stickymonks etc?

just curious.

Thanks.

Sixdirham · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:47 am Post subject:

Morocco:
Tangiers which will be the "extention" of Algesiras already congested.
Jorf Lasfar: specialized in phosphate and other bulk dry chemicals
Agadir: Fish, trucks, frozen fruits
Dakhla: fish, trucks

The Gambia:
Banjul: misc traffic mainly food and construction material

I'll continue to go down the map asap