Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab
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| legal form | Aktieselskab (A / S) |
| founding | 1866 |
| Seat | Copenhagen , Denmark |
| management | CEO: Niels Smedegaard; Chairman of the Management: Bent Østergaard |
| Number of employees | 6616 |
| sales | DKK 13.5 billion |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | www.dfds.de |
| Status: 2015 | |
Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A / S ( German : Die Vereinigte Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft AG ) is a Danish shipping company with headquarters in Copenhagen and was founded in 1866. Today the DFDS mainly maintains ferry services in the North and Baltic Seas and especially from continental Europe and Scandinavia to Great Britain . With the acquisition of Norfolkline in 2010, the route network has meanwhile been expanded. DFDS is one of the oldest and most successful Danish companies. It comprises the business units DFDS Seaways for sea transport and DFDS Logistics for road and rail transport as well as container traffic .
History and present
19th century
In 1866, several local Danish shipowners merged under the direction of Carl Frederik Tietgen to form DFDS - Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab A / S (German: The United Steamship Company). The house flag of the new shipping company was a white Maltese cross on a blue background. The young shipping company operated coastal services to Norway , Sweden and Great Britain to the Faroe Islands and Iceland . Only smaller cargo and passenger ships were used on these lines.
In 1884 the liner services to the Mediterranean ports were established and in 1894 the overseas freight services to North America started . Initially New Orleans was served, later New York , Philadelphia and Baltimore . In 1907 the freight services were expanded to South America with stops in Rio de Janeiro , Buenos Aires and Montevideo . In 1898 the Thingvalla line was bought up by DFDS and the passenger transatlantic service was opened. On June 28, 1904, the steamship Norge ran onto Helen's Reef near Rockall and sank within 20 minutes, drowning 625 people - the greatest tragedy of the northern North Atlantic emigrants of all. This service soon traded as Skandinavien-Amerikalinje A / S ( SAL ) with New York as the general terminal port, this service was retained until 1936. In 1935 the liner United States burned out and since the rest of the SAL fleet also required newbuildings, but DFDS wanted to concentrate on its core business - intra-European services - the transatlantic passenger service was discontinued in 1936.
20th century
From the 1930s onwards, the coastal services of DFDS increasingly took on the character of ferry services, which was to become the focus of business in the following years. In 1937, Kronprins Olav , a kind of prototype of today's ferries, went into service. During the Second World War , the shipping company lost a large part of the fleet and started new construction programs at the end of the war, like all shipping companies at the time.
Meanwhile, time was running out for the overseas services of DFDS, aircraft and containers required major investments. Since the core business was the ferry services, the freight services to North and South America and the Mediterranean were discontinued at the beginning of the 1980s.
However, the company expanded rapidly on the ferry routes, and the ships used here experienced an increase in tonnage practically every year. In 1981 DFDS acquired the Swedish Tor Line and also changed the brand name for the passenger ferry services to Scandinavian Seaways . In the same year, the ferry connection from Hamburg to Harwich in England was taken over by the shipping company Prinz Ferries , based in Rendsburg, which had been serving this line since 1969. This connection was discontinued in 2002 due to declining passenger and freight numbers and the associated decline in the load on the ship. In 1982 DFDS set up a ferry service in North America under the name Scandinavian World Cruises on the New York - Bahamas route . A new building was commissioned specifically for this service, Scandinavia . This company was unsuccessful and DFDS was on the verge of financial collapse when the whole thing was sold in 1985.
DFDS took some time to recover from this disaster, but in the early 1990s the company began to expand again. New and larger ships were used on the ferry routes, especially taking into account the new Cruise Ferry standard. The brand name for the passenger services was changed to DFDS Seaways .
The only ferry connection from Germany to Great Britain ran the DFDS Prinsenlinie first with "Prins Oberon" from Bremerhaven to Harwich and with "Prinz Hamlet" from Hamburg to Harwich, alternating daily. In the last few years only the ferry “Hamburg” drove from Hamburg to Harwich - the last attempt was to shorten the route from Harwich to Cuxhaven with a subsequent end. For decades, the landing stage in Hamburg was at the western end of the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken , and at the beginning of 1991 a new ferry terminal in Altona was put into operation. This system, built for DFDS, was converted from 2009 to 2011 into the Cruise Center Altona , Hamburg's second cruise terminal.
2000 to 2010
In 2001, the shipping company LISCO was taken over, thereby expanding the route network to the Baltic States and Russia. In September 2005, DFDS and the Russian state shipping company Sovcomflot signed a cooperation agreement for the joint continuation of the Ro / Ro freight service between Kiel and St. Petersburg under the name SCF DFDS Line , which was introduced in 2002 as SCF St. Petersburg Line .
In November 2006, the previous ferry connection Gothenburg - Kristiansand - Newcastle was discontinued and the ship "Princess of Scandinavia" was sold to Moby Lines . At the same time, the route Bergen - Haugesund - Stavanger - Newcastle of the Norwegian Fjord Line was taken over together with the ferry "Fjord Norway" previously used there. The ship is now sailing under the name "Princess of Norway". Initially, the "Princess of Norway" was used on the Bergen - Newcastle route, but in 2007 DFDS decided to swap ships and thus united the sister ships "King of Scandinavia" and "Princess of Norway" on the IJmuiden - Newcastle route, while the "Queen of Scandinavia" served the Newcastle - Bergen connection. On May 27, 2008, the shipping company announced that the route Bergen - Newcastle would be discontinued for economic reasons on September 1, 2008 and that the "Queen of Scandinavia" would be sold or chartered. Since the beginning of September 2008 the ship has been in the port of the Danish city of Korsør . In the first half of 2009, the former ferry served as workers' quarters at the Swedish Forsmark nuclear power plant and was then relaunched in Klaipėda . From December 2009 the ship was chartered out as a hotel ship to the Danish police in Copenhagen . In January 2010 it was announced that the "Queen of Scandinavia" would be sold to Inflot Cruise and Ferry Ltd. will initially be chartered for three years in order to operate the St. Petersburg - Helsinki route for the St. Peter Line .
Takeover of Norfolkline by DFDS in 2010
At the end of December 2009, the shipping companies DFDS and AP Møller-Mærsk had agreed to take over Norfolkline by DFDS; In mid-June 2010, the European Competition Commission gave its approval for the transaction. After the completion of a rights issue, DFDS and Norfolkline were merged to form the new DFDS on July 12th.
The new DFDS group forms a maritime transport network with freight and passenger lines on the Baltic Sea, North Sea, Irish Sea and the English Channel as well as in large parts of Europe through freight transport by road and rail. With the expansion, the names of the brands within the DFDS group also changed. The brand names Norfolkline , DFDS Tor Line , DFDS Lisco , DFDS Lysline or Speedcargo were replaced by the brand name DFDS Seaways (Ro / Ro & Terminals), which was previously only used for the passenger ferry lines, or by DFDS Logistics (Lo / Lo & Door / Door road transport).
DFDS Seaways is a shipping company customer in the north German city of Cuxhaven . Five to six times a week the Danish shipping company connects the Lower Saxony port at the mouth of the Elbe in the Ro / Ro cargo ferry service with Immingham in England on the Humber and uses it to transport rolling or rollable loads such as semi-trailers , all types of containers and new vehicles from various manufacturers (OEM), trucks and heavy-duty vehicles, construction machinery and MAFI roll trailers that are loaded with forest products (paper rolls, lumber) or steel products, for example. In Cuxhaven, DFDS calls at the modern Cuxport deep water terminal with its cargo ferries.
In connection with the takeover of Norfolkline , it was decided to rename it significantly. In the future, all ships will have a blue hull and will be named “Seaways”. The passenger ships “Pearl of Scandinavia” become “Pearl Seaways” and “King of Scandinavia” becomes “King Seaways”. The Tor Line ships are also included. B. "Begonia Seaways" and "Botnia Seaways". The former Norfolkline ships are called e.g. B. "Lagan Seaways".
New corporate structure since 2010
DFDS employs around 6,000 people and has a fleet of 49 ships. The annual turnover in 2011 was around 11.6 billion Danish kroner.
The shipping company DFDS is divided into two business areas: DFDS Seaways and DFDS Logistics . The DFDS Seaways division comprises all Ro / Ro freight and passenger ship routes as well as the associated terminals. The travel offer is based on four concepts: scheduled transport, package holidays, mini cruises and conference trips.
The DFDS Logistics division is responsible for all activities in the road, rail and Lo / Lo areas.
DFDS Seaways is a member of the ShortSeaShipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center .
In mid-2018, DFDS completed the takeover of the Turkish shipping company UN Ro-Ro .
In 2012 DFDS operated the following ferry connections, of which the first ten of the following connections are combined passenger and cargo ferry connections, while the following are pure cargo ferry connections.
Passenger and freight traffic :
- IJmuiden - Newcastle
- Calais - Dover (since February 2012)
- Dunkirk - Dover
- Esbjerg - Harwich (only until September 29, 2014)
- Copenhagen - Oslo, after the interruption of traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the resumption took place on June 25, 2020 with an additional stop in Frederikshavn
- Kiel - Klaipeda
- Karlshamn - Klaipeda
- Sassnitz - Klaipeda (only until September 30, 2013)
- Paldiski - Kapellskar
- Kiel - Ust-Luga
Freight traffic :
- Gothenburg - Brevik / Immingham
- Gothenburg - Tilbury
- Gothenburg - Brevik / Ghent
- Esbjerg - Immingham
- Cuxhaven - Immingham
- Vlaardingen - Felixstowe
- Vlaardingen - Immingham
- Rosyth - Zeebrugge
- Fredericia - Aarhus / Copenhagen / Klaipeda
- Kiel - Karlshamn / St. Petersburg
- Lübeck-Travemünde - Klaipeda (since June 6, 2014)
| year | Surname | tonnage | shipyard | Status / whereabouts |
| 1898 ( 1894 ) | Hekla | 3310 GRT | k. A. | 1894 Thingvalla Linje / 1898 sold to DFDS / 1905 |
| 1898 ( 1894 ) | Norge | 3359 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd. , Glasgow | 1894 Thingvalla Linje / 1898 to DFDS / 1904 sunk (625 dead) |
| 1898 ( 1882 ) | Iceland | 2844 GRT | k. A. | 1882 Thingvalla Linje / 1898 to DFDS / 1906 out of service |
| 1898 ( 1874 ) | Thingvalla | 2534 GRT | Burmeister & Wain , Copenhagen | 1874 Thingvalle Linje / 1898 sold to DFDS / 1900 |
| 1901 | Oscar II | 10,095 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | Out of service in 1933 |
| 1903 | Hellig Olav | 10,095 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | Out of service in 1934 |
| 1903 | United States | 10,095 GRT | A. Stephen & Sons Ltd., Glasgow | Burned out in Copenhagen in 1935 |
| 1906 ( 1897 ) | CF Tietgen (I) | 8173 GRT | Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast | 1897 sold ex Rotterdam for HAL / 1906 to DFDS / 1913 |
| 1914 | Frederik VIII | 11850 GRT | AG Vulcan Szczecin | 1936 out of service |
DFDS ferries (selection)
| year | Surname | tonnage | shipyard | Status / whereabouts |
| 1906 | Dronning Maud | 1761 GRT | Burmeister & Wain A / S, Copenhagen | Sold in 1947 |
| 1912 | Aarhus | 1972 GRT | Burmeister & Wain A / S, Copenhagen | 1948: Botnia / sold in 1966 |
| 1927 | Dronning Alexandrine | 1854 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1965 |
| 1928 | CF Tietgen (II) | 1850 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1969 |
| 1932 | Esbjerg | 2767 GRT | k. A. | 1950 out of service |
| 1932 | England (I) | 2767 GRT | k. A. | 1950 out of service |
| 1936 | Aalborghus | 2079 GRT | Nakskov Skibsværft A / S, Nakskov | Sold in 1968 |
| 1937 | Crown Prince Olav | 3038 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1967 |
| 1939 | Hans Broge | 2927 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1970 |
| 1941 | Crown Prince Frederik | 3968 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1976 |
| 1949 | Crown Princess Ingrid | 3968 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1969 |
| 1950 | Diana (II) | 3609 GRT | k. A. | Sold in 1965 |
| 1950 | HP Prior | 3155 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1970 |
| 1950 | Jens Bang | 3155 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1971 |
| 1951 | Ficaria (II) | 3811 GRT | k. A. | Sold in 1972 |
| 1956 | Blenda | 4481 GRT | k. A. | Sold in 1972 |
| 1956 | Bellona | 4481 GRT | k. A. | Sold in 1972 |
| 1957 | Princess Margrethe (I) | 5150 GRT | Helsingør Skibs & Mask. A / S, Elsinore | 1968: Prinsessan / 1971 sold |
| 1961 | Kong Olav V. (I) | 5150 GRT | Aalborg Værft A / S, Aalborg | Sold in 1968 |
| 1964 | England (II) | 8221 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1983 |
| 1965 | Akershus | 5012 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1973 |
| 1967 | Winston Churchill | 8657 GRT | Helsingør Skibsværft A / S, Helsingør | Sold in 1996 |
| 1968 | Kong Olav V. (II) | 7956 GRT | Cantieri Navali del Torrino , Genoa | Sold in 1984 |
| 1968 | Princess Margrethe (II) | 7956 GRT | Cantieri Navali del Torrino, Genoa | Sold in 1984 |
| 1969 | Dania | 7956 GRT | Cantieri Navali del Torrino , Genoa | 1971: Dana Sirena (I) / 1979: Dana Corona (II) / 1985 sold |
| 1970 | Trekroner | 7956 GRT | Cantieri Navali del Torrino, Genoa | 1971: Dana Corona (I) / 1979: Dana Sirena (II) / 1983 sold |
| 1974 | Dana Regina | 12192 GRT | Aalborg Værft A / S, Aalborg | Sold in 1989 |
| 1978 | Duke of Scandinavia | 14399 GRT | Aalborg Værft A / S, Aalborg | 2000: 19589 GT / ex Dana Anglia / in service / 2006 chartered to Brittany Ferries as Pont L'Abbe , sold to Brittany Ferries in 2007 |
| 1981 ( 1975 ) | Dana Gloria (II) | 12348 GRT | Dubigeon-Normandie SA, Nantes | 1975 ex Wellamo , Silja Line / 1981 DFDS / 1994 sold / today Jupiter , Jupiter Cruises |
| 1982 | Scandinavia | 26,747 GRT | Dubigeon-Normandie SA, Nantes | Sold in 1985 |
| 1982 ( 1975 ) | Gate Britannia (I) | 14905 GRT | Flender Werft AG, Lübeck | 1990 Prince of Scandinavia , 22528 GT / out of service (2003: sold to Moby Lines) |
| 1982 ( 1976 ) | Gate Scandinavia | 14905 GRT | Flender Werft AG, Lübeck | 1990 Princess of Scandinavia , 22528 GT / out of service (November 2006: sold to Moby Lines) |
| 1987 ( 1975 ) | Hamburg | 13141 GRT | Shipyard Nobiskrug GmbH, Rendsburg | 1997 Admiral of Scandinavia / sold, thereafter: Caribbean Express ; to Alang for scrapping in 2011 |
| 1987 | Vilnius Seaways | 22341 GT | Mathias-Thesen-Werft, Wismar | in service with the Ukrainian shipping company UKR Ferry |
| 1989 | Liverpool Seaways | 27856 GT | in service | |
| 1989 | Kaunas Seaways , ex Kaunas | 25606 GT | Mathias-Thesen-Werft, Wismar | in service with the Ukrainian shipping company UKR Ferry in Georgia |
| 1990 ( 1981 ) | Queen of Scandinavia | 33575 GT | Wärtsilä A / B, Turku | 1981 ex Finlandia , Silja Line / 1990 to DFDS / out of service (2010 chartered to St. Peter Line, today Princess Maria ) |
| 1991 | Lisco Patria | 18332 GT | in service | |
| 1994 | Crown Seaways (Crown of Scandinavia) | 35498 GT | Brodogradevna Industrija Split , Split | in service |
| 1994 ( 1974 ) | King of Scandinavia (II) | 13,286 GT | Wärtsila A / B, Turku | 1974 ex Prinsessan Birgitta / 1994 to DFDS / 2002 sale to Turkish Marmara Lines as Cesme |
| 1999 | Optima Seaways , ex Lisco Optima | 25206 GT | in service | |
| 2001 ( 1989 ) | Pearl Seaways (Pearl of Scandinavia) | 40022 GT | Wärtsila A / B, Turku | 1989 ex Athena , Viking Line / 2001 at DFDS / in service |
| 2002 | Dana Gloria (II) | 20,600 GT | Stocznia Szczecińska SA , Szczecin | Renamed Lisco Gloria in 2003, caught fire in 2010 |
| 2003 | Sirena Seaways ( Dana Sirena ) (III) | 20,600 GT | Stocznia Szczecińska SA, Szczecin | in service |
| 2003 ( 1993 ) | Duchess of Scandinavia | 16551 GT | Fosen Mek. Verk. A / S , Rissa | 1993 ex Bergen , Fjord Line / 2003 DFDS / Nov. 2005 end of charter |
| 2009 | Victoria Seaways , ex Lisco Maxima | 25518 GT | Nuovi Canterie Aquania, Marina di Carrera | in service (Kiel - Klaipeda) |
| 2010 | Regina Seaways | 25518 GT | Nuovi Canterie Aquania, Marina di Carrera | in service (Kiel - Klaipeda) |
| 2010 (2000) | Anglia Seaways | 13073 GT | Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard, China | in service (Kiel - St. Petersburg ) |
| 2010 (2000) | Botnia Seaways | 11530 GT | Jinling Shipyard, China | in service (Kiel - St. Petersburg ) |
| 2017 ( 1987 ) | King Seaways (King of Scandinavia) | 31395 GT | Schichau Seebeckwerft AG, Bremerhaven | 1987 ex Nils Holgersson / 1993 ex Val de Loire / March 2006: IJmuiden - Newcastle |
| 2017 ( 1986 ) | Princess Seaways (Princess of Norway) | 31356 GT | Schichau Seebeckwerft AG, Bremerhaven | 1986 ex Peter Pan / 1993 ex Spirit of Tasmania / 2003 ex Fjord Norway / November 2006: Bergen - Stavanger - Newcastle / May 2007: IJmuiden - Newcastle |
Web links
- Official website of DFDS Seaways (German)
- DFDS Anual Report 2011 (PDF; 5.82 MB; English)
- DFDS remporte la DSP Dieppe-Newhaven
Individual evidence
- ↑ dfdsgroup.com (PDF)
- ↑ dfdsgroup.com (PDF)
- ↑ DFDS Tor Line cooperates with Sovcomflot at Verkehrsrundschau.de, accessed on December 13, 2012
- ↑ faktaomfartyg.se
- ↑ Press release of February 8, 2010 ( Memento of the original of August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dfds.com (English) accessed on July 13, 2010
- ↑ dfdsseaways.co.uk
- ↑ freight.dfdsseaways.com
- ↑ norfolkline.com
- ↑ dfdsgroup.com (PDF; 5.82 MB), DFDS Anual Report 2011
- ↑ DFDS Finalizes Takeover of UN Ro-Ro Early at worldmaritimenews.com , June 7, 2018 (English)
- ↑ dfdsseaways.de , route network of the DFDS Seaways division.
- ↑ freight.dfdsseaways.com , DFDS overall route network
- ↑ Frank Binder: DFDS discontinues route Esbjerg – Harwich . In: Daily port report , May 5, 2014, p. 1/4
- ↑ Benjamin Klare: DFDS resumes route . In: Daily port report from June 8, 2020, p. 3
- ↑ Marcel Brech: DFDS Seaways closes the ferry line between Sassnitz and Klaipeda. (No longer available online.) August 30, 2013, archived from the original on September 27, 2013 ; accessed on August 31, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Frank Binder: New freight route Lübeck – Klaipeda . In: Daily port report , May 12, 2014, p. 3
- ↑ a b dfdsseaways.de , ship information Optima Seaways and Liverpool Seaways
- ↑ DFDS chartered a ferry to the Black Sea . In: Daily port report , July 21, 2015, p. 3
- ↑ dfdsseaways.de , ship information Regina Seaways and Victoria Seaways
- ↑ a b dfdsseaways.de , ship information Regina Seaways and Victoria Seaways
- ↑ Anglia Seaways. In: The ferry site. Retrieved May 8, 2014 .
- ^ M / F Botnia Seaways. In: The ferry site. Retrieved May 8, 2014 .
