Fringian Transport and Logistics

A major business sector of the Distant Fringe.

General Overview

Moving raw materials and goods to where they need to be. Moving people to where they want to be. Warehousing and storage of goods while they are being transported. Long term storage of goods. Bulk goods, starships, surface vessels, transport vessels, interface services, refuelling services, frontier maintenance.

Transport & Logistics

Logistics is supply chain management that focuses on the challenge of planning and coordinating the flow of materials and information.

• Logistics is the commercial activity of transporting goods to customers. It includes organisation, planning, management, arrangement, administration, direction, orchestration, handling, and execution.
• the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation; the careful organization of a complicated activity so that it happens in a successful and effective way.
• take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle or ship. A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place.

Storage

Keeping things safe, protected, at perfect environmental conditions.

• Basic storage. Crates in warehouses, shipping containers, hoppers, stacks of goods and commodities and raw materials. Sufficient security to protect those goods while they are being stored, and sufficient shelter to adequately protect them from local environmental conditions. Active monitoring of those goods. Reduction or elimination of potential risks or hazards.
• Controlled storage. Special environmental conditions such as humidity, light levels or temperature. Storage of living organisms.
• Special storage. Strong boxes, safes. Medical storage and biohazards. Protecting works of art or treasures. Protecting delicate or fragile items.

Special

Description.

• Specialised environmental conditions, particularly for sophonts.
• VIP transport. Prisoner Transfer services (see also Security).
• Frontier refuelling. Frontier maintenance.

Major Companies

Important organisations within this sector include:

• Allied Interface Factors Inc
• Astra Pluris
• Blue Star Lines
• Chen-Ribeiro Universal
• Coralin et Fils SPRL
• Dragon-Pace Transport & Storage
• Delivery Specialist Services LLC
• Fringe Frontier Maintenance
• Fringe Transport Services
• Logistics Integrated
• Mooi & Belanis Heavy Haulage SA
• Pan-Stellar PLC
• Trans-Rissa Transfer LLC

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science