>> 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.

>>Container Capacity Forecasts, 2nd quarter 2010 for main east/west routes now available; showing anticipated deployment of exisiting and newbuild vessels to 2011 and consequent capacity by trade lane. More...

>>Consolidated UK International Passenger database, available for 2009, describing passenger volumes by mode, route, origin/destination, journey purpose, length of stay and purpose, compatible with IPS, ferry operator and CAA sources. More...

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Network Analysis of Freight Traffic


MDS Transmodal has recently completed a study for the Department for Transport  examining freight flows and their contribution to network usage.  Using the M6 corridor as a 'test-bed', we developed and tested a methodology (using the GB Freight Model) for better understanding freight flows on the strategic road network at a link-by-link level.  We established current daily HGV demand between each link (junction) on the M6 together with producing a modelled assessment of traffic origins and destinations, commodities being conveyed, the domestic/international split and mean length of haul.  The freight demand was subsequently compared with all vehicle traffic on the M6, enabling freight's contribution to network stress to be identified.  Forecasts of HGV demand in 2015 and 2020 were also produced in a similar format.  Rail freight demand and forecasts on the parallel West Coast Mainline were also produced.  The results are summarised in the recent DfT publication 'Delivering a Sustainable Transport System: The Logistics Perspective' (Annex B).