NEWS

>> MDS Transmodal presented a paper on The Impact of the Sulphur Emission Control Area on the Scotland-Continent Ferry Service at the Scottish Transport Applications & Research (STAR) conference in Glasgow on 17 April 2013.  The authors, Chris Rowland and Chris Wright, received the Best Paper Award from the organisers for their article. Download the paper here.

>>  MDS Transmodal have produced Rail Freight Forecasts for 2023/4, 2033/4 & 2043/4 to help inform Network Rail.  Read more here.

>>  MDS Transmodal's presentation to Global Liner Shipping Conference 2013 in London is available for download.

>> Marco Polo Programme enters its final year. MDS Transmodal provides advice on developing applications for funding. Read more here.

>> The authoritative rail industry journal Modern Railways published a letter from MDS Transmodal in February 2013. Read letter here.

>> MDS Transmodal gave the keynote speech at Local Transport Today’s Rail and Freight Conference in London on 22 January. Read more here.

>> MDS Transmodal's presentation to BPA Conference in Workington is available for download.

>> MDS Transmodal's presentation on "European best practices and future perspectives in urban freight transport" at the annual conference of the International Federation of Warehousing and Logistics Association in Rome on 15 May is available for download here.

>> MDS Transmodal's presentation to RORO 2012 Conference in Gothenburg is available for download.

>> BoxTradeIntelligence attended UKTI-International Port Projects Seminar.  Handouts are available here .

>> 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. 

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Downloads

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

Urban Freight Transport Capability Statement

Rail Capability Statement

Energy Capability Statement

Papers and Articles

Scottish Transport Applications & Research (STAR) conference, Glasgow (April 2013). Presentation

Global Liner Shipping conference, London (April 2013). Presentation

British Ports Association Conference, Workington. (October 2012) Presentation

International Federation of Warehousing and Logistics Conference, Rome. (May 2012) Presentation

RoRo 2012 Conference, Gothenburg. (May 2012) Presentation

UKTI-International Port Projects Seminar. (May 2012) Handout

Asia-Europe Analysis. (May 2012) Article

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