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DFDS
Sign in to saveDFDS is a Danish international shipping and logistics company. The company's name is an abbreviation of Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (literally The United Steamship Company). DFDS was founded in 1866, when C.F. Tietgen merged the three biggest Danish steamship companies of that day.
Key facts
- Company.name
- DFDS A/S
- Company.logo
- DFDS logo 2015.svg
- Company.image
- DFDS Sunkrogsgade.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters in Copenhagen
- Company.type
- Aktieselskab
- Company.founder
- Carl Frederik Tietgen
- Company.location_city
- Copenhagen
- Company.location_country
- Denmark
- Company.locations
- 20 countries in Europe
- Company.industry
- Shipping and logistics
- Company.services
- Freight transport (over sea, land and rail), ferry cruises, logistics.
- Company.revenue
- (2021)
- Company.operating_income
- (2021)
- Company.net_income
- (2021)
- Company.assets
- (2021)
- Company.equity
- (2021)
- Company.owner
- Lauritzen Foundation 42.8%
- Company.num_employees
- 14,000 (2024)
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Article
22 sectionsContents
- History
- The Beginnings
- The Two World Wars
- First World War
- Second World War
- Between the Wars
- The Fifties & Sixties
- The Seventies & Eighties
- The Nineties
- As of 2000
- Current operations
- Acquired activities now integrated in DFDS
- DFDS Lisco
- DFDS Lys Line
- DFDS Container Line
- Norfolkline
- DFDS Denizcilik Tasimacilik A.S (ex-name U.N. Ro-Ro)
- Ekol Logistics
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
DFDS is a Danish international shipping and logistics company. The company's name is an abbreviation of Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (literally The United Steamship Company). DFDS was founded in 1866, when C.F. Tietgen merged the three biggest Danish steamship companies of that day.
Although DFDS has generally concentrated on freight and passenger traffic on the North Sea and to the Baltic Sea, it has also operated freight services to the US, South America, and the Mediterranean in the past. Since the 1980s, DFDS's focus for shipping has been on northern Europe. Today, DFDS operates a network of 25 routes with 50 freight and passenger ships in the North Sea, Baltic Sea, and the English Channel under the name DFDS Seaways. The rail and land-based haulage and container activities are operated by DFDS Logistics. Overall, DFDS employed around 14,000 people as of 2024.