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DFDS has acquired Netherlands logistics company Alphatrans. The Danish-owned shipping and logistics company said it would add new countries to its network along with its expertise in special transport.
DFDS will acquire all the shares in the Dutch Group following an agreement signed with owner, Martin Bos, who will continue to manage the business.
Alphatrans specialises in the transport of long, wide, high and heavy loads and has 197 employees and a ...
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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’ ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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