Joe returned his atttention to miss ellie's cargo manifest on this route,she used 55 percnt of her outbound deck space and 30 percent of her bulk cargo capacity. These load factors were typical of supply boats operating in the gulf of mexico,and played a key role in CLI's proposal to establish itself as a third - party supplier of logistics services in the region. Joe poured him self another cup of coffee and settled in among the atacks of manifests,maps ,boat Routes,and other operationnal data .