DFDS Tor Line, the DFDS freight division, is to open a
new twice-weekly route known as "PolBridge" between Gdansk,
Copenhagen and Gothenburg on 1 September 2004.
Ships will sail from Gdansk every Tuesday and Friday and
arrive in Copenhagen the next day, allowing DFDS to resume
normal service to the circle of clients built up when DFDS
Seaways plied the same route until November 2003.
After calling at Copenhagen, the vessels will continue
to Gothenburg to deal with cargo to and from the Swedish
and Norwegian markets. The new service will also link up
directly with DFDS Tor Line's other routes from Gothenburg,
which include 16 weekly departures to Brevik in Norway,
Immingham and Harwich in England, Rotterdam in the
Netherlands and Ghent in Belgium.
Arrival and departure times in Gothenburg have been
designed specially to suit DFDS Tor Line's routes to
England (AngloBridge), cutting transit time between Gdansk
and the English market to two and a half days.
As well as trailers, automobiles and other rolling
freight, the service will carry heavy or massive industrial
loads like paper, steel and chemical products in DFDS' own
ship trailers, which will make transit between Gothenburg
and Rotterdam (MaasBridge) and Ghent (EuroBridge)
particularly attractive, especially after 1 January 2005
when Germany introduces the long-awaited road toll "the
Maut".
For further information, please contact Ole Frie,
telephone +45 3342 3400, e-mail:olfr@dfds.com, or Peder Gellert Pedersen, telephone +45 3342
3424, e-mail: peder.gellert@dfdstorline.com