Often independent of any military control, cargo transports can either be in organized fleets under corporate or private ship-owner control or be a single ship under the ownership and command of a single person that hires ship and crew out for any number of jobs. All types are rarely seen as plotships, but there are a couple of instances of the former present.

Previous cargo-transporting plot ships included:

• Horizon's Key
• SRSS Alucard
• SRSS Yggdrasill

• Star Army Cargo and Supply