Some clarifications:
- The 4.5 million figure I quoted in my last post is from Push Industries, not Red Frog. Over long distances, Push tends to be cheaper - although I have heard they are sometimes (slightly) slower.
- On scanners: Blockade Runners are the only class of ship outright immune to cargo scanners (including those with corporate hangar arrays). To my knowledge, however, the "double plastic wrap" trick still works. This trick takes advantage of the fact that the cargo scanner only sees "one layer" deep into a cargohold, revealing everything in the cargohold and anything within containers in that cargohold. However, if the container happens to hold another container - impossible to do with normal cans, but quite possible with an alt and a bit of contract flipping - then the scanner will only see that 2nd cargo container.
A visualization:
(My cargo: [First plastic wrap container: Scanner sees up to here {Second plastic wrap layer: Put your goodies in here. } ] )
- At current most people don't bother with neutral freighters carrying double-plastic wrapped cargo because there's always the dumber guy who hasn't bothered to hide his shinies.