Capacity wise , maybe , efficiency wise , certainly not . A Hull ship is purpose built and will likely use less fuel and fly faster when fully loaded . Not only that , but external loading will make it much faster to load and unload a full cargo as it isn ' t limited by bay door . Additionally , when flying empty to collect the cargo a Hull ship is tiny and can operate with marginal costs while the BMM is massive , sluggish and costly . The BMM also requires more crew , which will increase the expenses even further . The BMM will be a brilliant ship if you do plan to operate like a bazaar and negotiate high quality and rare products , however , it might not even be viable to transport raw cargo cost wise . It is impossible to tell what will come out of this , but expecting a much cheaper trading ship to perform similar to a more expensive model purpose built to transport cargo sounds like wishful thinking . I hope it happens so I can collect my easy money out of a bunch of $ 0 tokens I got .