Logistics Company
The Logistics Company in the Service Industry DLC is deliberately simple to run — much like a telecom or media company — and gives you a steady revenue stream that grows with everything else you own.
That is the point of it: as your corporate group expands, freight capacity expands with it, and the logistics network becomes more valuable the more of your own business it carries.
Transport routes
You run both local routes within a city and city-to-city routes between them. In a four-city game that means four local routes plus the network connecting them.
Your own group ships with you
Companies in the same corporate group always prefer your logistics company. Any subsidiary uses it automatically for distribution — unless it runs one of its own. The larger the group, the more traffic the logistics company carries without you doing anything.
Budget for freight capacity
Each route takes its own budget for capacity expansion. With many routes that is a lot of micromanagement, so an auto-setting feature is built in — and unlike elsewhere in the game it does not require hiring a COO.
| Button | What it does |
|---|---|
| [Auto] | Toggles auto-setting on the current route. |
| [All] | Enables it on every route. |
| [None] | Disables it on every route. |
Staff training and skill level
A monthly training budget raises the skill level of the employees serving a route, on a scale of 1 to 9. Higher skill means better service quality, and better service attracts more business. The same auto-setting option applies here.
How AI companies choose a carrier
An AI company without its own logistics company uses a third party. Which one it picks depends on the skill level of the staff on the route and whether that route has capacity available when the service is needed.
Operating costs and the IT system
| Cost type | When you pay it |
|---|---|
| Fixed costs | Based on freight capacity, whether it is used or not. |
| Variable costs | Only when that capacity is actually being used. |
Invest in the IT system. Fully developed, it saves up to 40% of fixed operating costs and 20% of variable costs.
One per corporation
A single logistics company handles everything for the group, so there is no reason to build more — and the game does not let you.
Settings
Enable the feature on the Logistics page of the Service Industry DLC’s new game settings menu.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| AI tendency to establish logistics companies | How likely AI companies are to build their own, which shapes how competitive the market is. |
| Freight cost modifiers | Alters freight costs across the board. Higher costs make logistics companies more profitable — and everyone who depends on them more expensive to run. |
Synergy with e-commerce
With the Digital Age DLC you can expand the freight capacity dedicated to e-commerce deliveries, and your e-commerce firm automatically relies on your own logistics company for all of them.
That turns rising delivery demand into logistics revenue, and the two businesses grow each other: the bigger the e-commerce operation, the bigger the network it needs.