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The Charter System

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Sailing Jingle (link)
The song that plays when riding on a charter ship.

The Charter Ships (often simply called charter) are a fleet of merchant ships which form a fairly extensive shipping transport infrastructure which includes popular docks as well as ports in remote locations, run by a wealthy merchant named Chat head image of Trader Stan, File:Trader Stan chathead Trader Stan and his Trader Crewmember (1) crew. Players must pay a fee ranging from 200 to 3,200 Coins 1 coins for transportation on the charter ships. The fee is dependent on the destination - destinations which are further away or more remote than others have a higher cost. As with all nautical travel in RuneScape, the transportation time is only a few seconds, during which a map of Link to Gielinor Gielinor with the destinations labelled is displayed, and an animation of a ship travelling from the point of embarkment to the destination is played. The short duration of the travel and the variety of destinations - the more remote of which having few alternate methods of transportation - make the charter ships favourable to other transportation systems, although some charter ship routes have higher costs than other transportation methods.

Trader Crewmember (1) Trader crewmembers stand at the docks of each destination in the charter ships network, and Trader Stan himself is present at the Link to Port Sarim Port Sarim dock. In addition to allowing players to charter the shipping network, the crewmembers also run Link to Trader Stan's Trading Post Trader Stan's Trading Post, a more versatile and exotic form of a general store, which sells many items of interest as well as a few commodities which aren't stocked in specialty stores, such as Item image of %7B%7B%3ATyras+helm%7D%7D, File:Tyras helm Tyras helms, which are unavailable anywhere else.

Getting to the charter ships[]

While travelling by charter ship can be convenient for players who can afford it, it can be a bit time consuming to get to the ship in the first place, as there is no teleport that goes right next to a ship. Some of the quickest ways to get to the ships are:

Fares[]

  • After completing the Bill Teach chathead Cabin Fever quest, the price between two locations, as displayed below, will halve the charter costs to 50%.
  • The Item image of %7B%7B%3ARing+of+charos%7D%7D, File:Ring of charos Ring of Charos(a) also halves the charter costs to 50%.
    • These cost reductions can be combined to reduce the costs to 25%.
  • Another way to reduce the fare, when travelling to or from Link to Port Sarim Port Sarim or Link to Musa Point Musa Point, is to utilise the ship from Port Sarim to Musa Point to reduce the fare. For example, if travelling from Musa Point to Link to Port Phasmatys Port Phasmatys, the fare is normally 2900gp. By travelling to Port Sarim and taking the charter ship from there, the cost is reduced to 1330gp.
Destination Brimhaven Catherby Corsair Cove Karamja (Musa Point) Mos Le'Harmless Port Khazard Port Phasmatys Port Sarim Port Tyras Ship Yard
Brimhaven N/A 480 680 480 1,950* 400 2,900 1,600 3,200 400
Catherby 480 N/A 1,000 480 1,750* 1,600 3,500 1,000 3,200 1,600
Corsair Cove 680 1,000 N/A 800 2,040* 600 4,040 1,200 3,200 800
Karamja (Musa Point) 200 480 800 N/A 550* 400 1,100 N/A 3,200 200
Mos Le'Harmless 1,450* 1,250* 2,040 2,050* N/A 550* N/A 650* 1,600* 550*
Port Khazard 1,600 1,600 600 1,600 2,050* N/A 4,100 1,280 3,200 1,600
Port Phasmatys 2,900 3,500 4,040 1,100 N/A 4,100 N/A 1,300 3,200 3,200
Port Sarim 1,600 1,000 1,200 N/A 650* 1,280 1,300 N/A 3,200 400
Port Tyras 3,200 3,200 3,200 3,200 1,600* 3,200 3,200 3,200 N/A 3,200
Ship Yard 400 1,600 800 200 550* 720 1,100 400 3,200 N/A
* Since travel to and from Mos Le'Harmless requires Cabin Fever to be completed anyway, the cost is already halved.

On the charter ship map, the destination labelled 'Karamja' is Musa Point on the island of Link to Karamja Karamja. Brimhaven and the Link to Ship Yard Ship Yard, which are also on Karamja, are also charter ship destination on that island.

Quest requirements[]

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