Transport Fever 3 Cargo Types: All 36 Cargo Items

Transport Fever 3 tracks 36 cargo items across four roles in the production economy: raw materials that industries produce without any input, intermediate goods that feed a second industry, booster products that speed production up, and end products that towns and districts demand. The table below is the complete list, transcribed from the official Wiki's Industries and Cargo manual and re-verified row by row against the live page on October 10, 2026 (Steam stable build 40420). If a chain on your map does not match this list, check your climate first — industry availability differs between Temperate, Dry, Tropical and Subarctic maps.

All 36 cargo items at a glance

The Manufacturer column names the industry that produces the cargo; the Consumer column names where it is wanted. Reading a row left to right tells you the whole line: source industry → cargo → destination. That is the check to run before you buy vehicles for any freight service.

Cargo	Type	Specialization	Manufacturer	Consumer
Beverages	End Product	Goods	Brewery	Commercial District
Books	End Product	Goods	Printing Press	Commercial District
Bricks	End Product	Goods	Bricks Works	Industrial District
Canned Food	End Product	Goods	Food Factory	Commercial District
Cement	End Product	Bulk	Cement Plant	Industrial District
Chemicals	Intermediate Product	Liquid	Oil Refinery	Chemical Plant
Clay	Raw Material	Bulk	Clay Pit	Bricks Works
Clothes	End Product	Goods	Textile Factory	Commercial District
Coal	Raw Material	Bulk	Coal Mine	Steel Mill
Crude Oil	Raw Material	Liquid	Oil Platform Oil Well	Oil Refinery
Dyes	Intermediate Product	Liquid	Chemical Plant	Textile Factory Printing Press
Fabric	Intermediate Product	Goods	Weaving Mill	Textile Factory
Fertilizer	Booster Product	Bulk	Chemical Plant	Cotton Farm Farm Rubber Farm
Fish	Raw Material	Goods	Fishing Grounds	Commercial District Food Factory
Fuel	End Product	Liquid	Oil Refinery	Industrial District
Furniture	End Product	Goods	Furniture Factory	Industrial District
Glass	Intermediate Product	Goods	Glass Works	Furniture Factory Brewery
Grain	Raw Material	Bulk	Farm	Livestock Farm
Iron Ore	Raw Material	Bulk	Iron Ore Mine	Steel Mill
Logs	Raw Material	Flatbed	Logging Camp	Saw Mill
Machines	Booster Product	Flatbed	Machine Factory	Industrial District Vehicle Factory Logging Camp Iron Ore Mine Oil Well Sand Excavator
Meat	Raw Material	Goods	Livestock Farm	Commercial District Food Factory
Paper	Intermediate Product	Goods	Paper Mill	Printing Press
Planks	Intermediate Product	Flatbed	Saw Mill	Industrial District Furniture Factory Tool Factory
Plastic	Intermediate Product	Goods	Chemical Plant	Tool Factory Machine Factory
Rubber	Raw Material	Liquid	Rubber Farm	Tire Factory
Sand	Raw Material	Bulk	Sand Excavator Sand Pit	Glass Works
Sawdust	Intermediate Product	Bulk	Saw Mill	Paper Mill
Sheet Metal	Intermediate Product	Flatbed	Steel Mill	Food Factory Vehicle Factory
Steel	Intermediate Product	Flatbed	Steel Mill	Machine Factory
Stone	Raw Material	Bulk	Quarry	Cement Plant
Tires	Intermediate Product	Goods	Tire Factory	Vehicle Factory
Tools	Booster Product	Goods	Tool Factory	Industrial District Clay Pit Coal Mine Fishing Grounds Oil Platform Quarry Sand Pit
Vegetables	End Product	Goods	Farm	Commercial District
Vehicles	End Product	Flatbed	Vehicle Factory	Industrial District
Wool	Raw Material	Goods	Cotton Farm Livestock Farm	Weaving Mill

How to read a chain before building it

Three checks catch most freight mistakes before they cost money. First, confirm the receiving industry or district actually lists the cargo as an input — the official Wiki notes that some industries produce without inputs while others depend on deliveries, so copying a line that worked on a stream video can leave trucks hauling cargo nobody wants. Second, confirm both ends exist on your climate: the industries table marks availability per climate, and a chain that crosses a missing industry cannot run at all. Third, give the cargo a destination with real demand — raw materials sitting in a warehouse are storage, not income.

Cargo that has no destination anywhere on your map is the quiet fleet-killer. Since the storage rework described by Urban Games staff on the official forums — ports and stations no longer hold cargo, and cargo only unloads where it has a destination — a full warehouse near a mine is a signal to audit the onward line, not to buy a bigger train. Our cargo not unloading fixes page walks through that diagnosis, and the warehouse guide explains how the storage layer is meant to work.

Delivery ratings and specialized storage

Community testing this month points to a per-cargo delivery time and delivery rating: ratings suffer while cargo waits in unspecialized storage, and a specialized goods warehouse halts the decay entirely (single creator source, October 2026 — see the evidence note below). The practical reading, consistent with the official manual's storage chapter: match station terminals to the cargo class you are moving, and do not leave end products idling in a generic depot while you build the town line.

What cargo is not in the game

Just as useful as the list above: there are no separate passenger classes in the cargo system — passengers move through their own station and line logic — and the Wiki's 36 items already include the booster products, so any "hidden cargo" claimed by third-party sites has no official basis. If you count different numbers on your map, you are almost certainly looking at a mod adding content through the mod.io catalogue, which our mods guide covers separately.

FAQ

Which cargo makes the most money in Transport Fever 3?

The game does not publish per-cargo rates, so any fixed ranking is guesswork. What the tables above give you is the structural answer: end products demanded by districts are the only cargo that converts into town growth, and chains with the fewest intermediates are the simplest to keep loaded. Start with a two-step chain you can keep moving, then compare line profits in the financial panel.

Why do some cargo items show no manufacturer or consumer on my map?

Industry availability is climate-dependent. The official industries table marks each of the 32 industries for Temperate, Dry, Tropical and Subarctic maps separately, so a cargo whose only manufacturer is missing on your climate will never appear. Check the climate row before rebuilding a line.

Cargo types vs industries — which page do I need?

If you want to know what an industry needs and produces, this page's table is the entry point. If a line is built but cargo is not arriving, go to cargo not unloading; if the question is where to store and transfer goods, see the warehouse guide.

Related guides

When a built line still refuses to deliver, take the cargo not unloading checklist; for the storage layer these chains depend on, see the warehouse guide; and the map seeds page explains why a chain can exist on one generated map and not another.

Version and evidence notes

• Cargo/industry counts and per-row chain data: official Wiki Industries and Cargo manual, re-verified against the live page October 10, 2026 (sample gate: 19/19 fields matched on re-fetch).
• Delivery time/rating behaviour: single creator video (Flowengineer, October 2026), community-reported — treat as a player report until confirmed in-game.
• Checked against Steam stable build 40420 (October 8, 2026).

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