Apollonian Shipping Company
| Type | Public limited company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Marine transport |
| Founded | 1667 |
| Headquarters | Sint Anna, Aemilian Alrig, Confoederatio Aemilia |
| Products | Marine transport, container terminal services, warehousing, containerization, shipping container leasing, flexible barges |
The Apollonian Shipping Company, or ASC, is a marine transport company with its headquarters and home port in Sint Anna, Aemilian Alrig. Together with the United North Apollonian Company, it also leases a dock and crane in the seaport of Xiaoxincheng. While most of its fleet has Sint Anna as home port, they are mostly seen navigating the Antya river in Jingdao proper, where they move containers from the, fully-owned, Kaimingcheng Container Terminal to other ports along the river. From 1680 to 1685, a line service between Sint Anna and the South Cibolan city state of Sankt Ludwigshafen was operated with two small feeder ships. Following the Partition of Alrig and the subsequent annexation of Sint Anna by the Confoederatio Aemilia in 1731, the line service between Sint Anna and Sankt Ludwigshafen, then renamed into Altstadt, was restored. The company played a vital part in the White Tea Road initiative.
Products and services offered
The Apollonian Shipping Company has a focus on moving goods in shipping containers across the Jingdaoese-Alriggian economic zone. It offers various services that complement this, such as warehousing services, containerization services and leasing of shipping containers. It works together with the Alriggian transport company OldSport which transports the containers from the terminal to inland warehouse locations and end customers. In North Apollonia, the ASC works together with the United North Apollonian Company, also based in Alrig, to transport goods from communities in the Green to warehouse facilities in Jingdao, from where they are further distributed.
Flexible barges
As communities in the Green often lack clean drinking water, this commodity can be sold at a premium. Together with the United North Apollonian Company, the Apollonian Shipping Company has developed flexible barges, which can be towed behind container barges, and hold clean drinking water. This innovation makes it attractive for communities in the Green to trade with the Alriggian companies. In response to the Water crisis in Alduria in 1673, the Alriggian government offered subsidies to the ASC to transport clean drinking water to Alduria to alleviate their shortages.
Presence in Barbary
Following the founding of the Barbarian Republic in 1685, the Apollonian Shipping Company has set up shop there as well. The construction of five warehouses with a total surface of 350,000 square ricmeters is expected to be finished by late 1690. The warehouses will store dry food products for the Apollonian market. The company has also sponsored the Barbary national football team, together with Balqis Rum, a major customer of the ASC in Barbary.
Presence in the Hexarchy
With subsidies from the Jingdaoese Empire, the Apollonian Shipping Company has set up shipping routes to the Hexarchy. One of them between Sint Anna and Kobol, and another between Glacier City and Kobol. From Glacier City citizens are transported to new homes in the Eventide Islands, along with classified equipment. From Sint Anna, food and raw building materials are brought to the fledgling realms.
Imperial Yardistani Cruises
The Apollonian Shipping Company is the founder and owns all shares of Imperial Yardistani Cruises, which offers luxury cruises, most between the Apollonian and Benacian parts of the Shirerithian empire, and which is located in Novi Nigrad in Yardistan.
Intramango Shipping
Following the Partition of Alrig the Apollonian Shipping Company became an Aemilian company, but most of its fleet was still registered under the Shirerithian flag. These ships were brought under the umbrella of Intramango Shipping, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Apollonian Shipping Company that was registered in Driftwood in the Shirerithian part of Alrig. Intramango Shipping was made responsible for all transportation between Shirerithian ports, especially between Benacian and Apollonian ports, and ports on the Antya River.
