IUG Transshipment Facility 16 — TSF-16

One of several across the Solar System, the IUG Transshipment Facility provides cargo transfer, processing, and forwarding services for the myriad of transportation companies that operate in space.

This particular series of logistics platforms are most commonly found around the Earth-Moon system, typically stationed in the Lagrange points between the Earth, Moon, and Sun, giving them certain advantages for shippers and industry.

It is a common sight for many containerized payloads to travel to their destination via a transshipment platform, and their pressence represents an often overlooked, but critical node in the trade, commerce, and economy between the myriad of worlds in our Solar System.

Idea:

Following completion of the Gold Standard, I wanted to work on a “destination” for the vessel, a place where the Gold Standard would visit as part of its commercial duties. Since I was focused on in-space cargo and logistics, the idea of working on some kind of orbital spaceport came to mind. Inspiration for this came from both marine shipping ports and inland cargo terminals that regularly moved shipping containers between different modes of transport.

This type of activity is known as transshipping in the logistics and transport world, and I wanted to create a futuristic interpretation of it to help further fill out the world I have been building.

After having had model the main structure, as well as some tug-like transfer vehicles that handled container movements, I decided to put it altogether into a longer form animated short which you can watch above.

Scenes: