shipping tutorial

[recycle85]

Help please i need to know how to do shipping and boat related things? I am  more interested in say, taking oil from a platform and shipping to oil refiner
thank you

[gauthier]

canals work the same way as road : you build canals, add canal stops on it, and create your line like a bus line.

For harbours, you need to place a dock, then ship stops in front of the dock (the tile befront the dock).
For water industries like oilrigs, a public stop is created with the industry : your ships can stop on them.

[recycle85]

thank you



did not help my tanker is not picking up any oil. could someone make a video and post so i can see it.

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[sanna]

Is your tanker trying to transport the oil to a factory that has a contract with the oil rig, and if so, is the entire transport chain in place? If you need to reload to f ex train to be able to deliver the oil, then the train needs to be in place before the oil tanker picks up any oil from the oil rig.

[Isaac Eiland-Hall]

In addition to what sanna said: You might wish to build a canal over land to where the destination is, and build a canal stop there - just so the entire journey can be made by ship.

It might simplify your first such connection; then once you see it working, you can branch out and have multiple transportation methods

[stmaker]

Ye I can make you tutorials about ship, but what kind?

[recycle85]

tanker for oil to costal dock

[stmaker]

tanker for oil to costal dock

Erm, if you want your ship to deliver oil from the oil rig to the refinery, make a canal that links to the refinery. Then, make a shipyard at one end of another canal linking to the canal.

At the shipyard (depot), get a ship that delivers oil. Then, make a schedule for the ship to travel from the oil rig to the refinery.

EDIT:
Here is an easier understanding:

Larger Picture for Clearer

EDIT2:
You can make transfers:

[recycle85]

were do i click on the oil rig

[stmaker]

were do i click on the oil rig

Anywhere but only from the oil rig. The oil rig has already a stop made by the public service.

[recycle85]

ajhhhhhhh

[stmaker]

ajhhhhhhh

Is it hard for you? (Just a curious question)

[recycle85]

no i ment ahhh such as eureka moment

[stmaker]

=/ SOLVED.