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Commodities crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a green symbol.^[1]

Materials crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a black symbol.^[1]

Cargo transported by caravan and merchant ships must be stored in crates.^[2]

There are small, medium, and large crates.^[3] The higher quality the crate, the greater its capacity.^[2]

Commodities are transported by caravans and merchant ships in sealed crates.^[4]^[5]^[2]
- Player commodities are "pre-crated" when they are purchased from commodities vendor NPCs.^[6]^[4]^[7]
- Player commodities present in caravan wreckages have a portion of their value sunk (lost).^[8]^[9]^[10]
- These commodities cannot be stored in a player's inventory. Looting them will convert them into stolen commodities which yield a lesser value when exchanged at black market locations in nodes.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[5]
- To retain the value of the commodities, players must summon an empty caravan from a nearby node to collect and transport them.^[12]^[9]^[10]

Commodities can go into Crates to move them. If someone loses a Caravan, in the wreckage there are Crates. If you get a Crate to a Caravansary you can unpack it.^[9] – Ry Schueller

Commodities crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a green symbol.^[1]
Materials crates found in caravan wreckages are marked with a black symbol.^[1]

Unsealing crates (by breaking open sealed crates) yields less value than transporting the sealed crates for unloading.^[8] This is in addition to the value already lost when the caravan (or merchant ship) was destroyed.^[9]^[10]^[13]^[5]