Trade Winds Shipping is a Tirionite mercantile conglomerate that operates across the Chaska Sea. Unlike most of the other major conglomerates, the company is purely concerned with the transportation of goods, rather than their production as well. Trade Winds Shipping contracts heavily with other conglomerates involved in Tirione's colonies. Trade Winds Shipping, along with Macaria Colonial Concerns and the Balanos Consortium, is part of the triad of conglomerates that effectively governs Argengrast.
In addition to their headquarters in Tirione, branch offices of the company can be found in the ports of Nionegrast, Argengrast, and Briathone.
Unlike some other Tirionite conglomerates, Trade Winds Shipping neither fields its own military nor contracts mercenaries to provide security for its ships and agents. Of the three conglomerates that control Argengrast, Trade Winds Shipping is the least concerned with the ongoing rebellion. Its leaders see opportunity in either Tirionite or local Argenite control of the colony and generally tolerate the Lamplighters, at least the less zealously anti-Tirionite factions amongst them. Colonial administrators from Macaria Colonial Concerns and the Balanos Consortium have on multiple occasions accused Trade Winds Shipping of aiding the rebellion, a charge always strenuously denied.