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Businesses involved in the storage trade Keep things safe, protected, and at their optimal environmental conditions.
  
 
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Keeping things safe, protected, at perfect environmental conditions.  
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There are considered to be three 'levels' of storage. These are:
: ''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.
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* ''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.
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* ''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.
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* ''Special storage''. Strong boxes, safes. Medical storage and biohazards. Protecting works of art or treasures. Protecting delicate or fragile items.
  
 
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Revision as of 01:34, 28 January 2018

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.

The types of vessels used by transport and logistics companies can be found under Ships of the Distant Fringe.

There is a certain amount of cross-over with businesses considered to be part of the Media, Leisure, and Tourism sector.

Commercial Organisations

Important organisations within this sector include:

Transport & Logistics

Major Companies

Primary Activities

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

Vessels belonging to Transport and Logistics companies primarily work along Star Lanes.

Courier Services

Major Companies

  • Bright Postal Relay (based at Selasia).
  • Dragon-Pace Couriers (based at Nexus)
  • Star-Lane Links (based at Pador)
  • Tal Varisa Postal Office (based at Tal Varisa)

Primary Activities

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting communications, data, documents and small parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many worlds and interstellar states place restrictions on private postal services.

Storage

Businesses involved in the storage trade Keep things safe, protected, and at their optimal environmental conditions.

Major Companies

Primary Activities

There are considered to be three 'levels' of storage. These are:

  • 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

Major Companies

Primary Activities

Specialised environmental conditions, particularly for non-human sophonts. VIP transport. Prisoner Transfer services (see also Security). Frontier refuelling (Gas Traders). Frontier maintenance (the Recovery Trade).

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