- Fragile can always be read as relative to other cargo in this class. If loaded grav trucks are RO/RO cargo, then shiny sports air/rafts are fragile RO/RO cargo (don't scratch the paint job). Similarly, if grains intended for a mill are ordinary drybulk, seeds may be fragile drybulk -- the former can still be used if grains are broken, the latter not. Use better augers, then.
However RO/RO does not neccessarily mean the vehicle is the actual cargo. If i want to transport fragile objects to a remote place on a low tech world, it might be a good idea to buy a grav truck suitable for fragile cargo, load them in, and then ship the whole truck to the low tech world.
Then i have a suitable vehicle to bring the cargo fom the star port to the actual destination.
Similiarily i don't assume "RO/RO, living" cargo is always a herd of cattle, that is herded directly into the hold. It might also be one or a number of trucks full of lifeforms.
- For many fragile drybulk loads, the question becomes "if it is so fragile, why handle it as bulk load and not in special containers?" That could be a false economy, however, since the containers have to be loaded and unloaded, too. So why not load it directly into the hold, then?
I would assume that usually the cargo has to be transported to the star port and from the destination star port to an other location. So with a container you do un/loading twice. Once at the production site, once at the destination site. With dry/wet bulk you load 4 times, production site, source startport, desitnation starport and destination site.
In some cases production and destination sites might be at the star port or otherwise it might be practical to land the freighter in their parking lot. But i would assume that this is the exception rather then the rule.
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