MDS Transmodal (MDST) was established in 1983 and has developed into a unique business providing specialist research, consultancy and information services to the world’s transport industry.
The company’s main activities are focused on the economics of freight transport and logistics and cover urban logistics, road and rail freight, ferries and short sea shipping, ports, the deep‐sea container sector and intermodal movements, as well as inland waterway transport and air freight.
MDST focuses on quantitative analysis and its knowledge of relevant markets and transport economics allows it to develop models that simulate entire transport markets, at a macro‐level, and the financial position of individual companies and the commercial viability of a service at a micro‐level.