Mdst

MDS Transmodal Ltd (MDST) — An integrated family of seaborne-trade databanks and models built and maintained in-house: the World Cargo Database of harmonised global trade flows by commodity and country pair; the Containership Databank holding deployment data for the world's containership fleet; the Ferry Databank holding deployment data for roll-on roll-off vessels and ferries; a global container port throughput database; and the Container Business Model, which allocates world trade measured in containers to specific ships to produce revenue, cost and profit by trade lane with scenario testin…

Mdst offers (Alternative, Fundamental, Supply Chain) — Modest in rows, broad in scope: the cargo database covers global commodity trade by country pair (order of tens of thousands of country-pair and commodity cells), the containership databank covers the world fleet of several thousand container vessels with deployment assignments, the ferry databank covers the global ro-ro fleet, and the throughput database covers container ports worldwide (hundreds of ports on an annual series). Total asset size is millions of cells at most — the value is harmonisation and model continuity, not volume..

Port capacity planning and infrastructure business cases for port authorities and governments (an explicitly stated use: testing the impact of infrastructure upgrades and regulatory shifts on freight and port demand); overcapacity and effective-supply analysis for liner shipping, where the firm's own published capacity analyses make the idle and laid-up dimension explicit; trade-lane revenue, cost and profit benchmarking for carriers, investors and lenders; modal-split and freight-demand forecasting for national and regional transport authorities; ro-ro and ferry market sizing; due diligence for port, terminal and vessel acquisitions; and scenario analysis for decarbonisation and regulatory change.

Coverage spans UK, US, Europe, Other, APAC; Research and Consulting Services, Marine; alternative, fundamental, supply_chain; equities, commodities, derivatives, fixed_income.