Tukera Lines

Tukera Lines is a major interstellar transport company with service to virtually every important world in the Imperium. The keyword is “important:” Tukera ignores the backwater worlds and their low profit routes.

• Tukera Lines, LIC is an Imperial megacorporation.

Market Ticker Code

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

Market Ticker Code

Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Tukera Lines	TBD	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	LIC	None

Description (Portfolio)

Tukera Lines is one of the thirteen Imperial MegaCorporations in operation in 1116.

Commercial Competencies

• Interstellar Shipping & Trade
  • Freight
  • Passengers
• Speculation

Tukera Lines operates a vast fleet of passenger and freight vessels throughout the Imperium, following the X-Boat lines.

In some subsectors (particularly the older, more established regions of the Imperium) Tukera Lines has a virtual monopoly on long-distance shipping and travel.

Governance & Organization

Tukera's head is Count Blaine Trulla Tukera and his two brothers. Duchess Margaret who is married to Count Tukera, is also close to the Imperial Throne.

Tukera's intelligence services, the Vemene, are feared for their ruthlessness by both citizens and the corporation's employees.

Stockholders

Stock ownership (1105):

Tukera family — 29%

Imperial family — 3%

Sternmetal Horizons— 2%

SuSAG— 5%

General Products— 2%

Private ownership— 31%

Investment trusts— 28%

Subsidiaries

Tukera has a habit of setting up subsector-sized subsidiaries to provide feeder service.

Some of those companies include:

1. Alpac
2. Akagi Transport
3. Akerut
4. Arean Transport
5. Ekatur
6. Fornice Packet
7. Ingram Services
8. Keratu
9. Murdstone Yards
10. Stellar Construction
11. Thanber Consolidated Properties
12. Tukera Wines
13. Tukera CoreSpan
14. Vemene

Best Known Products & Services

This business is best known for:

1. 232-BHR-7 class Toolbot
2. Hercules class Cargo Transport
3. Lightning class Frontier Cruiser
4. Margaret class Longliner
5. Pride of Vland class Long Liner
6. Prosperity class Freighter
7. Type AH class Heavy Merchant
8. Type RT class Longliner

History & Background (Dossier)

The oldest record of the firm is a charter from the government of the Sylean Federation, but family tradition holds the company to be several centuries older.

There is considerable rivalry with Imperiallines throughout the Imperium, and Oberlindes Lines within the Marches.

Trade Partners

• Hive Federation

Trade Competitors

• DaguMassilLines
• Imperiallines
• Oberlindes Lines

History-Era: Rebellion

Rebellion (Non-canon) The Tukera family and its holdings support Duchess Margaret's bid for the Iridium Throne.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following worlds and systems:
Charted Space:

• TBD Sector
  • TBD Subsector

Facilities Data

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

• TBD (world)

World Listing

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

28 of 28 World articles in Tukera Lines

Ansirk  •  Aramis (SM 3110)  •  Atadl  •  Atsah  •  Deneb  •  Dhian  •  Dunmag  •  Horosho  •  Jode  •  Junidy  •  Khinumi  •  Lamas  •  Lewis  •  Maitz  •  Mora  •  Nasemin  •  Natoko (SM 3209)  •  Noscius  •  Parthinia  •  Paya  •  Pretoria  •  Roup  •  Rurur  •  Sentry  •  Sherad  •  Thanber  •  Towers  •  Uramid  •  

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