>> 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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Company Profile

 

MDS Transmodal based in Chester, North West England, was established in 1983 and has developed into a unique business, providing strategic and specialist consultancy and modelling services to the world's transport industry, the public sector, financial institutions, property developers and other organisations with interests in transport-related issues.  Its consultancy business is underpinned by the development and maintenance of databases (Industry Data), software development (Transport Models) and publications.  Its main activities are concentrated in the freight market, including ports, ferries, short and deep-sea shipping, airfreight, intermodal transport, rail and logistics.

 

MDS Transmodal specialises in providing accurate market assessments, the crucial element of any business analysis; bringing together an appreciation of the economics of transport and an understanding of the commercial mechanisms involved.  The company undertakes a wide range of consultancy projects in the UK and internationally.  Projects range from trade and traffic forecasting at the national level and for specific routes, or commodities or projects, to feasibility studies for new facilities or services. In the ports sector this entails forecasts from both an econometric and market research point of view, as well as studies of shipping line behaviour. 

 

MDS Transmodal is widely recognised as making a contribution to change and innovation in transport and related sectors.

 

MDS Transmodal is accustomed to working on ‘high-profile' projects, which may be subject to high levels of public scrutiny.  In 2005 and again in 2007 the company was commissioned by the UK Department for Transport to produce 25-year traffic forecasts for the entire GB port industry and carried out a detailed study of the economic value of container transhipment to the UK economy.  Both studies were used to inform the consultation process on the review of national port policy and involved at times contentious analyses of future port capacity in Great Britain.  The company directors have also appeared as expert witness in a number of major public planning enquiries, both on behalf of the public sector and private sector clients.  These, for example, have included the enquiry into the development of a major new container port at Dibden Bay in Southampton and the protection of rail freight paths in the proposed ‘Crossrail' rail link across London.  MDS Transmodal produces forecasts of rail freight levels up to 2030 that have been used by among others, the Department for Transport in the 2007 Rail White Paper 'Delivering a Sustainable Railway' and the Network Rail Freight Route Utilisation Strategy (FRUS).