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 testing. Also maintains a national freight model covering road and rail including international movements through ports and the Channel Tunnel, rebased to 2024, and a cloud-based box-trade analyser portal.

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Industry: Research and Consulting ServicesMarine
Instruments: equitiescommoditiesderivativesfixed_income

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Type: not stated
Format: Licensed databanks and model outputs (tabular trade, fleet and port-throughput tables) delivered under subscription or consultancy engagement, plus a cloud-based analyser portal for the box trade and bespoke scenario outputs. No programmatic interface or open download is offered.
Volume: 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.
Users: N/A — licensed databanks and consultancy outputs sold to institutional subscribers and project clients rather than a registered-user product; the interactive portal is a client-facing analytical surface, not a mass-account service.
History: not stated
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active with periodic rebasing — the freight model is stated as version 7 rebased to 2024, a cloud-based box-trade analyser portal has been launched, and current capacity analyses continue to be published; headcount is stable at around eleven and the business remains consultancy-led rather than scaling.
Launched: Est. 1990s-2000s for the databank family (a long-established Chester transport consultancy whose cargo database and containership databank are mature, versioned products, now at version 7 of the associated national model; no launch dates are printed).
Delivery: not stated
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