Logistics and transportation were extremely well developed on modern Earth, but on the Sains Continent, they were still limited to a small amount of passenger transport and some freight transport.
Taking the Lampari Kingdom as an example, the all-important business of freight transport was usually handled by the merchant guilds producing the goods, which organized their own wagon fleets. They almost never entrusted their goods to other merchant guilds for delivery.
On the surface, it seemed that the merchant guilds of the Sains Continent simply lacked that habit, but the underlying reason was that their circumstances left them little choice.
First and foremost was the problem of roads.
Before the Falling Rain Highway, the entire Sains Continent had not had a single road flat enough to be suitable for transportation. Goods were subjected to constant jolting along the way, resulting in considerable losses during transit alone. Naturally, the merchant guilds producing those goods were unwilling to entrust their valuable products to other guilds for delivery.
This major problem made it difficult to transport goods to distant places on the Sains Continent. With the poor roads and slow transportation speeds, the goods might be completely ruined before they arrived.
For example, although the various types of household magic machinery currently produced by the Xinfei Merchant Guild were already very well known in Bunta City and several neighboring cities, they still had not truly reached the entire Lampari Kingdom after more than two years. The biggest reason was the problem of logistics and transportation.
Second was the problem of vehicles.
Horses provided the main transport power on the Sains Continent, and horse-drawn carriages were its primary vehicles.
Leaving aside the speed and endurance of horse-drawn wagons, the one or two horses needed to pull a wagon were already extremely expensive, and keeping