Newbie question!

[sachmo]

I haven't gotten very far in the few games that I've played, so I was wondering if someone could answer this question for me.

The features list for the game says (I believe) resupply ships. Now, while I understand that you can create ships that will greatly increase the range of a fleet, is there any way that you can create a supply ship that can go out and fill up the supplies of a SINGLE ship, without being in a fleet? Or are the supply containers a new feature to SEIV, and this is what they mean by "supply ships"? Because as it stands now, if you move the "supply ship" out of the fleet, all of the other ships are back in the same situation they were in before...out of supplies! Thanks, and I hope that wasn't TOO confusing!