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A portion of the income from combat missions comes in the form of salvage and loot from the NPC wrecks. When you get Tibia Gold to level 4 missions, this portion becomes quite large due to the battleship NPCs dropping battleship sized loot and plenty of salvage components.
Loot has historically been sold or reprocessed into minerals for sale but items that refine into a lot of minerals will take up a lot of cargo space. This makes looting difficult during the mission, a problem which is further compounded by the fact that both tractor beams and salvagers fit in valuable high slots that most mission-running ships need for weapons.
There are three main schools of thought on looting and salvaging in missions and it's up to you to decide which is best for you. The first method is to ignore loot and salvage entirely, instead blitzing through the missions to gain bounties, standings and loyalty points as fast as possible.
The second is to use a ship which naturally has high slots free like a marauder or drone ships like the Dominix and Ishtar that don't rely on high slots for the bulk of their damage. You can then fit a few tractors and salvagers to help clean up the mission while running it.
The third method is very popular but not always cost-effective on time. Rather than salvaging during the mission, you can set up a specialized salvaging ship and return after the mission is complete to loot and salvage the wrecks.
Destroyers and cruisers are perfect for this job, having plenty of high slots and high maximum speeds. If you do this, remember to bookmark at least one wreck in each stage of the mission as once it's handed in, the dead-space complex disappears and the wrecks are left floating in space.