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Given that the overhead for a m-drive is only a few percent, it wouldn't be ridiculous for the cargo module to fly itself to the high port after you jump in, depending on how long it takes you to dock your megafreighter.
But I still don't see why you can't just dump certain things in space, and the high port can send a tug for them.
By the way, cargo modules are complete administrative nightmare, like another layer of containers on top of containers. For example, just try to work out where a box is and who needs to be paid if it vanishes. So it's in a shared container, in a shared module, both the container and the module are owned by different companies, neither of which owns or operates the ship, and you paid a shipping agent, who has no connection to any of the above. And your buyer is also making a claim. And the ship might call "general average" assuming Traveller has that. This takes weeks to resolve today, with light-speed information transter. Good luck with commnications limited to the speed of jump!
But I still don't see why you can't just dump certain things in space, and the high port can send a tug for them.
By the way, cargo modules are complete administrative nightmare, like another layer of containers on top of containers. For example, just try to work out where a box is and who needs to be paid if it vanishes. So it's in a shared container, in a shared module, both the container and the module are owned by different companies, neither of which owns or operates the ship, and you paid a shipping agent, who has no connection to any of the above. And your buyer is also making a claim. And the ship might call "general average" assuming Traveller has that. This takes weeks to resolve today, with light-speed information transter. Good luck with commnications limited to the speed of jump!