Earlier this year, DFDS signed Heads of Agreement with Rosmorport and the Russian Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport to operate a rail ferry service between the Russian ports of Ust Luga and Baltiysk (Kaliningrad) and the German port of Sassnitz/Mukran.
The service will commence when terminal facilities in Russia are ready in the middle of 2006.
As part of the preparations - and to secure sufficient freight volumes - DFDS has signed a co-operation agreement with the state-owned, Russian shipping company SOVCOMFLOT.
SOVCOMFLOT has operated a Ro-Ro freight service between Kiel and St. Petersburg under the name SCF St. Petersburg Line since 2002.
DFDS now joins a conference named SCF DFDS Line. SOVCOMFLOT and DFDS will each deploy one Ro-Ro vessel and together offer two weekly departures in either direction.
DFDS and SOVCOMFLOT will both own shares in the line’ shipping agency in St. Petersburg. DFDS will assume responsibility for the agency in Kiel, from where DFDS – through its subsidiary AB LISCO Baltic Service - already operates a Ro-Pax service to Klaipeda, Lithuania.
For further information please contact Anders Refsgaard, Area Manager of DFDS Tor Line, direct phone +45 3342 3451, mobile +45 2032 5451