CATRAM Consultants is a fully private owned independent consultancy company founded in Paris, France in 1982. It is among the oldest of European consultancy companies specialized in transport, economics and logistics. CATRAM Consultants provides a high level of expertise in the fields of ports and sea / river / railtransport, including feasibility planning and development studies.

In addition CATRAM Consultants provides across the world and more particularly in Africa tailor made studies and definition of transport strategies and policies, privatization and concession processes, legal and regulation issues, socio-economic and financial studies as well as other issues related to the transport industry and ports in particular.

CATRAM Consultants benefits from a wide network across the world in a large variety of fields at the highest level. It has provided commercial, social and technical information in numerous studies carried out throughout mainly Europe and Africa by consulting vast numbers of major ship-owners, shippers and port managements in all fields bringing a deep knowledge of the freight transport market to the international port community.

The major fields of activity of CATRAM Consultants include : Ports master plans, Assistance to major ports and actors in their long term strategies, Analysis of deep sea ports attractiveness, Socio-economic analysis of ports development projects, Market surveys related to development plans, Analysis of port projects’ relevance compared to neighbouring ports
Ports added value, Cargo flows analysis in ports’ hinterlands, Study on alternative combined transport modes, Market surveys for deepsea transhipment hubs and Cruise industry analysis