Trailer Services
Trailer Services operates trailer companies in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Ireland that primarily services the market with transport solutions using DFDS’ route network.
Business Area CEO: Ole Sehested
Share of Group revenue in 2009: DKK 0.8 bn, equivalent to 11%
Product concepts:
- European door-door trailer transport
- Dedicated logistics solutions (Just in Time) for the automobile industry
Brands: Customer groups: - Importers and exporters of consumer goods
- Producers of heavy industrial goods, such as forestry products, steel, chemicals and plastics
- The automobile industry and its sub-contractors
Comparable companies:
- Cobelfret
- Norfolkline
- P&O Ferrymasters
Sales offices: - Ghent
- Copenhagen
- Hamina
- Rotterdam
- Dublin
- Oslo, Brevik, Kristiansand
- Middlesborough, Immingham
- Gothenburg
- Haamburg, Ratingen
Markets, activities and customers:
Trailer Services provides door-door transport solutions, primarily within Northern Europe, that mainly use DFDS’ route network in order to support the network's capacity utilisation. At the end of 2008, the trailer fleet comprised 1,600 units, of which approximately 2/3 were owned.
The most important customers are importers and exporters of consumer goods, and producers of heavy industrial goods, especially the automobile industry, whose transport needs incorporate a significant maritime-transport element.
Trailer success criteria: The most important success criteria for Trailer Services are capacity and guaranteed delivery based on a competitive cost level. Also important are combined trailer solutions that utilise both rail and ships, which constitute an environmentally-positive alternative to road transport.