Depending on the customs procedures of the world, the spaceport could be orbital or planetside. Some planetary governments did not allow foreign spacecraft to enter the upper atmosphere and required visitors to dock their starships at an orbital spaceport, traveling to the surface using official transportation. In Herglese, the term for a spaceport was shan-pakk. Due to the influence of Herglic trading in the Tapani sector, this term was widely used throughout the sector.