Newcomer / Intro Commodity Items Undeliverable - 'Deliver Items' box at the destination is solid red

Hello to all!

I'm a noob player, been playing maybe a month. In an attempt to build my rank through rep I've had missions that requires a commodity be delivered. In some of those missions there is a warning in red letters that 'if the mission fails I will be fined'. Doesn't say how or why only that I will be. The credits reward and/or the rep reflects those types of missions and are usually higher. So I purchase the commodity and have it in my inventory then when I go to deliver it at the destination port the "Deliver Items" box is solid red therefore is undeliverable. What's the magic trick? What am I missing, doing wrong? I do read each mission carefully but there's only the threat of the fine on mission failure in some missions. I've had to sell the commodity, pay the fine a few times then just move on. Just haven't been taking those types of missions anymore. WHy can I have the commodity in cargo yet can't deliever it? I have delivered commodities successfully many times before but they don't have the mission failure threat in the mission description.

Thanks for any guidance with this.
 
Keyword - deliver. If I ask you to deliver a box, I don't want you to buy a random box and take it somewhere. I want you to take the specific box I have.

Look at the icons on the mission. One arrow going one way means you have to take stuff from the mission giver and take it somewhere. Two arrows back/forth, go somewhere and buy something and bring it back.

You can fail missions by losing the box I gave you to deliver or delivering too late.
 
Is it a source and supply mission, where you find the commodity, purchase it and then deliver to the mission giver, or...

A delivery mission, where the mission giver supplies the goods, and you have to load them (not buy them) then deliver to another location.

Sounds like the second one.

Source missions vs delivery missions.

Ninjas, pah.
 
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