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DFDS has formally completed its acquisition of Turkish shipping company UN Ro-Ro, says chief executive and president, Niels Smedegaard. UN Ro-Ro operates five freight ferry routes connecting Turkey with Trieste in Italy and Toulon in France, with 12 freight ferries and its own port terminals in Istanbul and Trieste.
DFDS is meanwhile in the midst of a fleet renewal programme with seven ships on order, two of them delivered from the ...
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P&O Ferries has confirmed that it will deploy a larger vessel on its Zeebrugge-Teesport route to cope with a surge in volumes following the axing of DFD’s Zeebrugge-Rosyth route.
The 18,000 ton Estraden will replace the Mistral, a vessel approximately half its size. She will work in tandem with the existing ...
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DFDS to put new superferry on the Channel
DFDS is to charter a new 3,100 lane-metre Chinese-built vessel for its English Channel routes in 2021.
The new vessel will be built in Avic Weihai shipyard and chartered from Stena RoRo and will be the largest ship on the Channel, says the Danish ...
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DFDS has abruptly shut down its freight ro ro service from Zeebrugge to Rosyth, near Edinburgh after a fire broke out in the engine room of the sole vessel on 16 April. An injured crew member was airlifted to hospital from the Finlandia Seaways for treatment of smoke inhalation.
Within days ...
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DFDS is to acquire Turkey’s largest freight ferry operator, UN Ro-Ro, subject to regulatory approval, giving it a significant presence in the Mediterranean for the first time.
Danish shipping and logistics group will buy 98.8 % of the shares in the shipping company from Turkish private equity companies Actera and Esas ...
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DFDS Seaways managing director Sean Potter has moved to a new group position with responsibility for Digital Technologies and IT. His role spans the whole of DFDS freight, shipping and terminal operations, reporting directly to executive vice president and head of shipping Peder Gellert.
DFDS Seaways’ new managing director is Andrew ...
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DFDS’ Italian activities are to be restructured following unsatisfactory results, said the Danish-owned forwarder and logistics company.
Much of its business are rail services between Italy and the UK, Sweden and Denmark/ which will either be offered by other operators or cease by 1 April.
Warehousing and distribution operations at Fagnano, north ...
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Ferry operator DFDS said its North Sea freight volumes grew by 7% in 2017 spite of Brexit said chief executive and president Niels Smedegaard. He said: “At the moment, we even see an increasing growth in British exports, which also contributes positively to our developments on our ten North Sea ...
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DFDS gained approval for its acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Dutch abnormal load transport company Alphatrans from the German competition authority on 3 January. It follows the agreement signed in mid-November with owner, Martin Bos, who will continue to manage the business. Alphatrans specialises in the transport ...
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Once again, the Christmas tree gifted by the people of Norway has made its way from the Scandinavian forests to Trafalgar Square, courtesy of DFDS.
It left DFDS Immingham’s terminal on 2 December by trailer for the last leg of its journey to London.
After the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940, Norway's ...
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