>> 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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Transport Models & Forecasts

MDS Transmodal's approach to consultancy is, where appropriate, to write bespoke software and models that enable robust use of evidence to explain the way in which aspects of the freight industry work.  This allows the impact of a range of external effects to be tested and calculated.  These could be fiscal such as lorry road user charging or new locations for large scale distribution activities, for example.

 

GBFM – the Great Britain Freight Model

GBFM is an integrated software/database system linking domestic and international GB freight data with simple economic models for explaining freight demand and allowing trend and scenario based forecasting.

 

UK Rail Forecasts

MDS Transmodal in conjunction with the Rail Freight Group and the Freight Transport Association produce such forecasts.  These line-by-line forecasts enable the railway industry to plan for the future with correctly targeted improvements to the network.

 

LINCOST

LINCOST was developed to model liner services from short sea ferry to deep-sea container. Analysing these services is more complex than analysing bulk carrier trades: liner services pass through many ports picking up and dropping off cargo en route, while bulk trades are usually confined to origin/destination trades. The ability to model this complexity can be very useful.