Fringe Transport Services

Fringe Transport Services is a large corporation of the Distant Fringe.

• It primarily operates within Uncharted Space.
• It is an unpublished, non-canon organization.

Market Ticker Code

This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market code/s:

Market Ticker Code

Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Fringe Transport Services	FrTS	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	LLC	None

Description (Portfolio)

Fringe Transport is a large corporation considered to be a part of the Transport and Logistics Business Sector. It primarily operates within the central and rimward parts of Halcyon Sector.

Commercial Competencies

• Bulk transport of raw materials.
• Bulk transport of finished goods.
• Specialist transport resources.
• Bulk mineral and ore Transport
• Protected storage and warehousing.
• Interface services.

Governance & Organization

Fringe Transport is governed by a Chairman and a Board of Directors. It is run by a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officers and Department Heads. It has an extensive Records Department, an Audit Office, a Legal Department, a Sophont Resources Department, a Public Relations Office, a Finance Department, and a Security Department.

Head Office:

The head office is located on Nexus, a major commercial and industrial center of the Distant Fringe. As well as the main administrative complexes its headquarters includes a corporate retreat and spa complex, a number of executive villas, and large private estates with associated recreational facilities where business may be undertaken in complete privacy. The company controls a private spaceport facility on the world.

• The company maintains Regional Head Offices, administrative centers, holding and storage facilities, private landing pads, hangers, commercial premises and private territories on worlds across the region. These holdings are protected by corporate security.

Major Divisions:

• Support Services (responsible the maintenance and upkeep of corporate assets)
• Logistical Operations Division (responsible for corporate operations including warehousing and storage)
• Transport Operations Division (responsible for space and interstellar operations)

Stockholders

Stock ownership:

• Peresior Consortium – 38%,
• Garrick Trust – 21%,
• Private ownership – 14%,
• Portfolio Mitchell – 12%,
  • of which Harbinger Holdings – 33%,
• First Astra Bank – 9%,
• Nexus Trade Authority – 8%.

Subsidiaries

• Wolf Shipping (a general transport company providing services along the Wolfs Tail Star Lane).
• Graludent Mineral Supplies (providing everything from heavy machinery to headed stationary for mineral extraction operations).

Notable Investments

• Frontier Resource Exploration (mineral exploration, extraction and processing): 16% Holding.

Corporate Holdings

Fringe Transport has a fleet of more than 300 commercial vessels with a declared total tonnage in excess of 9 million displacement tons. Fleet assets include jump-capable ships, large in-system transports, interface vessels and small craft. It has private berthing and warehousing facilities in most starports lying along Star Lanes within the rimward and trailing parts of Far Home Sector and maintains commercial offices in many large urban areas.

History & Background

The corporation was founded by a consortium of business interests in 5052AD.

Trade Partners

• Fringe Mining Partnership (based at Nexus).
• Jittan Piers (based at Demar).
• Mooi & Belanis Heavy Haulage SA (based at Pador). This company, operating within the rimward part of Far Home Sector, has agreements and contracts in place allowing it to transship cargoes and shipments on behalf of Fringe Transport.
• Spinward Metallworks AG (based at Nexus).

Trade Competitors

• Pan-Stellar LLC (based at Wolf).

Notes

Fringe Transport uses a distinctive purple and white colour scheme for its heavy transport vessels.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following worlds and systems:
Uncharted Space - Distant Fringe:

• Halcyon Sector
  • Sena Subsector

Facilities Data: 1105

This business is known to host facilities in the following locations:

• Nexus

World Listing: 1105

This business can be found on the following worlds and systems:

No world articles for Fringe Transport Services

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• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science