DFDS Seaways
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| Industry | Freight Transportation Passenger/Car Transportation |
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| Genre | Ferry Company |
| Predecessor |
DFDS Tor Line DFDS Lisco Scandinavian Seaways Norfolkline |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Area served
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Baltic Sea English Channel North Sea |
| Parent | DFDS |
| Divisions | DFDS Seaways France |
| Website | www.dfdsseaways.com |
DFDS Seaways is a large Danish shipping company operating passenger and freight services across Northern Europe. Following the acquisition of Norfolkline in 2010, DFDS restructured its other shipping divisions (DFDS Tor Line and DFDS Lisco) into the previously passenger only operation of DFDS Seaways.
The company renewed their fleet in 2006, purchasing MS King of Scandinavia and MS Princess of Norway to replace the last ships dating from the 1970s still in service. The company has acquired a reputation as something of an expert in purchasing used ships, as the last time DFDS Seaways ordered a newbuild was in 1978 (although they have since taken over build contracts and taken delivery of newbuilds originally ordered by other companies). In 2006 DFDS Seaways stopped serving Sweden when MS Princess of Scandinavia was taken off service and the Copenhagen–Oslo service ships stopped calling at Helsingborg. In May 2008 DFDS made public their plan to close down the loss-making United Kingdom–Norway service on 1 September 2008.MS Queen of Scandinavia, the ship that was used in the service, has since been chartered out to St Peter Line.
In July 2010, DFDS acquired Norfolkline from Maersk. The Norfolkline routes and vessels were integrated into DFDS Seaways. Now, DFDS Seaways have the Dover–Dunkerque route and have launched the new Dover–Calais route from February 2012.
In 2015, DFDS announced that it had unveiled a new logo, which saw 'DFDS' in a new font and the logo with the white Maltese cross lost its outer circle, furthermore DFDS announced that the DFDS Seaways subsidiary would be shortened to just 'DFDS' carrying a dark blue hull in the same font instead of the traditional light blue hull, and the Maltese cross with the circle. The first vessels to receive the new livery are the former MyFerryLink ferries, Rodin soon to become Cote des Dunes and the Berlioz soon to become the Cote des Flandres, would be the first vessels to receive the new livery and new name scheme, that would eventually be rolled out throughout the whole fleet. All the fleet will lose the 'Seaways' suffix from its name and will instead receive local preference names.
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