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DFDS to raise cancer cash

DFDS is helping to raise funds for research charity Breast Cancer Now. The ferry operator is donating £5 to the charity for every booking made on its Dover to Calais or Dunkirk services, through a dedicated ‘Think Pink’ page on its DFDS website. On Friday 3 November, DFDS staff will ‘Wear it Pink’ in support of the charity, while six employees will run a relay marathon from Newhaven port to Dover port to ... [+]

Manfreight takes over as DFDS gets out of Ulster reefer business

Portadown-based haulier Manfreight is to take over DFDS’s reefer line-haul business in northern Ireland as part of a restructuring of logistics activities in Belfast by the Daniosh-owned operator. DFDS says that the growth and financial performance of the door-door reefer line-haul business between Ireland and Great Britain has not met expectations ... [+]

DFDS upgrades sideport and container services

DFDS has enhanced its container and sideport services between Immingham UK, Norway, Germany and Belgium in response to increased demand. From mid-August DFDS direct and loop sailings will connect Immingham with Hamburg, Zeebrugge, Fredrikstad and Oslo, whilst UK-Norway capacity will be doubled. The Norway port has also been switched from Moss ... [+]

A new era on the North Sea

The Gardenia Seaways, one of two new DFDS freight superferries for the Immingham-Rotterdam service made its maiden voyage to the UK on the night of 24 July. She is one of two new generation cargo-only superferries (sister vessel Tulipa Seaways) commissioned to handle increased volumes on DFDS' busy North Sea freight ... [+]

DFDS man comes ashore

Ferry operator DFDS has appointed Mark Henderson as its new regional sales manager for the North of England, Scotland and Ireland. Previously, he was an officer on board the company’s Newcastle-Amsterdam ship, King Seaways, where he was in charge of all entertainment, the casino, and on board bars. [+]

DFDS speeds up Lithuania links

DFDS is setting up a road service office in Vilnius to handle part and full loads to and from the UK. It will also offer an express service between Lithuania and Germany, Italy and other countries as well as full loads and special cargoes. Loads picked up in Lithuania on ... [+]

Eurotunnel sells ferries

Eurotunnel Group has sold the two ferries used on its former MyFerryLink operation to DFDS. The Berlioz (now Côte des Flandres) and Rodin (now Côte des Dunes) will transfer to their new owner under the terms agreed June 2015. [+]

Two more giant ferries for DFDS

DFDS has ordered a further two new 6,700 lane metre freight ro ro ships, in addition to the two similar vessels already under construction at the Jinling shipward in China. Like their sister ships, they will have space for 450 trailers each, making them DFDS' biggest ever ships, and are due ... [+]

New superferries for the North Sea

DFDS' marked a new era on its North Sea on 9 June when Mrs Tutte Østergaard (wife of the former DFDS board chairman) named Tulipa Seaways, one of two new freight superferries its Immingham-Rotterdam service. She and her sister ship Gardenia Seaways are a new generation of superferries commissioned to handle ... [+]

DFDS strengthens Ghent links

Shipping operator DFDS has signed a strategic partnership with Belgium’s port of Ghent and is increasing the number of ro ro freight sailings to Gothenburg to six a week. The Ark Germania will be added as a fourth ship to the route. It is also setting up a fixed three ... [+]

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