DFDS tror på langsigtet vækst i Middelhavet. Tyrkiets størrelse og karakteren af ​​Tyrkiets og EU's handelsforbindelser understøtter Tyrkiets vækstambitioner - og DFDS’ - til gavn for økonomi og beskæftigelse på begge sider.

Approx. at 13:00, DFDS ferry Regina Seaways suffered a breakdown to the main engine en route from Kiel to Klaipeda.

DFDS will in 2019 invest DKK 300m to install scrubbers on 12 freight ferries deployed on freight routes in the Mediterranean between Turkey, Italy, Greece and France. The investment will ensure compliance with the new global rules that from 2020 aims to reduce sulphur emissions through limiting sulphur content in marine fuel oil to 0.5% or through other means, such as scrubbers, with at least a similar environmental effect.

With the recent acquisition of Turkish company UN Ro-Ro, DFDS is now in a position to offer a fast intermodal connection from Gothenburg in Sweden to Trieste in Italy, Patras in Greece and Pendik, Ambarli and Mersin in Turkey.