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====Shipping companies====

The largest interstellar shipping companies within the League of Civilized Worlds were:

====Freighters====

The Leagues member worlds exchange their exports with one another using vast freighter vessels to move a millions of TEUs from one location to another. Each of these vessels has a crew of several hundred individuals, and are serviced above the surface of a destination port by dozens or even hundreds of container conveyor vessels. The loading and unloading of freighters is a major industry in and of itself, with tens of millions throughout a star system benefiting from the elaborate and complicated network of ships and administrative systems necessary for the timely and adequate management of the import/export business. These interstellar freighters vary in size, with the largest being the TBD-class megafreighter voidships. All container units used within the League were reorganized under the Unified Container and Parcel Act in TBD LC, establishing a single container unit known as the Universal Container Block (UCB), and the larger voidship Interstellar Container Unit (ICU), as the main units for cargo movement throughout the League. The dimensions for these container units is as follows: