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>> 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.

>> Gran Bretagna-Italia Rapporto Passeggeri 2009 pubblicato da MDS Transmodal nel dicembre 2009,  si pone come finalità quella di offrire la propria conoscenza del mercato agli operatori dei servizi di trasporto, gestori di infrastrutture, analisti, operatori turistici ed autorità di viaggio e turismo che operano nel mercato del trasporto passeggeri tra la Gran Bretagna e l'Italia. 

>>The Great Britain-Italy Passenger Report 2009  published December 2009, provides a unique source of market intelligence for airlines, airports, analysts, tour operators and travel and tourism authorities on the passenger market between Great Britain and Italy.

>>As the world awaits a rebound, we examine the world trade in cars and maritime trade in containerised motor vehicle parts using data generated by the MDS Transmodal World Cargo Database.  The development of each of these trades is monitored from 1996 and in detail from Q1 2007 to Q2 2009 with projections generated by the World Cargo Database to 2020.  These currently suggest that whereas the decline will ease in 2010, it will not be until the latter half of 2011 that an upturn will become evident on a world scale.  Click here to access the article 'Car Trades Tracked'.

>>After several years of growth and investment things changed for the container industry last year.  In an article for Containersation International magazine, Mike Garratt examines what may happen next.  Click here to access the article 'One Year On..'.

>>Container Capacity Forecasts, 4th quarter 2009 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 2008, 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.