>> BoxTradeIntelligence has released an analysis of Asia-Europe Westbound trade lane.  It is available here .

>> MDS Transmodal's presentation to Intermodal Europe 2011 conference in Hamburg is available for download.

>> MDS Transmodal's presentation on Port Infrastructure Development to RenewableUK 2011 conference in London is available for download. 

>> The 2011 competition for funding for international sustainable distribution services from the European Commission's Marco Polo Programme has now started and the deadline for submissions is 16 January 2012.   For a description of the main changes to the Programme this year and how MDS Transmodal can help you to develop a successful application, please see the attached White Paper

>> Longer lorries.  On the 30th March, the Department for Transport (DfT) published a consultation on a proposal to allow a 2.05m increase in the length of semi-trailers and a maximum overall length for articulated HGVs of 18.75m.  Read more

>> The UK Government's Comprehensive Spending Review has been very significant for the transport market.  MDS Transmodal produced freight traffic forecasts for the Freight Transport Association's submission.

For FTA's submission click here.

The current and forecast road and rail traffic maps are our work.

>> South America Trade Briefing The third in the series of trade briefings from MDS Transmodal - the South America Trade Briefing -presents analysis of containerised trade data to 4Q 2009 and forecasts for the next two years using the MDS Transmodal World Cargo Database.

>> North America Trade Briefing The second in the series of trade briefings from MDS Transmodal - the North America Trade Briefing -presents analysis of containerised trade data to 4Q 2009 and forecasts for the next two years using the MDS Transmodal World Cargo Database.

>> China Trade Briefing 2010  The latest China Trade Briefing report from MDS Transmodal highlights key trends in China's containerised import and export trades with near term quarterly predictions for 2010 and 2011.  Although the last 18 months have seen the container markets fall in spectacular fashion, still the words "double-digit growth" have not left the shipping industry's parlance as far as China is concerned.  The China Trade Briefing report shows why.  As well as looking at broad trends in imports and exports the report provides specific details on China's container trades with trading partners and particular commodity groups, drilling down to SITC 5 digit level in some cases.

>> Consolidated UK International Passenger database, available for 2010, describing passenger volumes by mode, route, origin/destination, journey purpose, length of stay and purpose, compatible with IPS, ferry operator and CAA sources. More...Italiano...

 

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For convenience, all downloads are grouped below in the following order: consulting capability statements, papers and articles and sample analyses. Click on individual items to download.  All items are in .pdf format. 

Consulting Capability Statements (including lists of past projects)

Ports Capability Statement

RoRo & Ferry Capability Statement

Rail Capability Statement

Papers and Articles

Asia-Europe Westbound Analysis. (January 2012) Article

Intermodal Europe, Hamburg. (November 2011) Presentation

RenewableUK 2011 Conference, London. (November 2011) Presentation

TOC Middle East Conference, Dubai. (September 2011) Presentation

PFI Baltics Conference, Copenhagen. (April 2011) Presentation

Port Centric Logistics Conference. (March 2011) Presentation 

Roro ShippingConference. (March 2011) Presentation

Global Trade Indices. (February 2011) Article

UK Port Policy Conference .(January 2011) Presentation

Global Trade Indices. (December 2010) Article

Car Trade Tracked. (November 2009) Article

Medfreight Conference (October 2010) Presentation

Roro Conference, Bremen (May 2010) Presentation

Multimodal 2010, Birmingham (April 2010). Presentation

Port Centric Logistics Conference, Manchester (March 2010) Presentation

One year on.. Containerisation International magazine. (October 2009) Article

2nd European Shortsea Congress (Liverpool 2009) Presentation

The *11th Global Liner Shipping conference* (London 2009) Presentation

The Freightwise project's 2nd Annual International Conference. (Prague 2008) Presentation

Rail Connected Distribution Parks. (Intermodal Conference, Hamburg 2008) Conference paper

Port Markets - Future Prospects for RoRo and Feeder. (BPA Conference, Milford Haven, 2008) Conference paper

China Trade and Container Traffic. (2nd China Ports and Logistics Conference 2008) Conference paper

The holistic approach (to container trade and transport data). Containerisation International magazine, March 2007. Article

Forecasting for long term investment in container shipping. (Intermodal Conference, Hamburg 2006) Conference paper

Roro Freight Market Overview.  (Roro Conference, Ghent 2006) Conference paper

Why the Rail Freight Industry needs forecasts ?. (Rail Freight Handbook 2006) Article

The UK Ports Industry: Forecasting growth and developing capacity. (UK Government's Ports Policy Review Conference 2006) Conference paper

Maritime Highways, How can politicians dreams be realised ?.  (Roro Conference, Gothenburg 2004) Conference paper

Short Sea and Waterway Freight. (Sea and Water Conference, 2004) Conference paper

Can container barges capture a competitive niche in the UK ? (SSA Seminar, 2004) Conference paper

Rail Freight within a wider policy framework. (RFG) Article


Container Shipping Data - samples

Top 20 operators, fleet size by owned, chartered and age, including vessels on order

Fleet by TEU sizeband, time series, including forecasts

200 largest containerships, time series, by operator

Current deployment of ships over 3000 TEU on east/west routes

Port connectivity – services calling at an individual port by carrier, route, frequency and capacity

Container Capacity Forecasts CCF output