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Business area responsible
Peder Gellert Pedersen
Product concepts
n Trailer system
n Lifting unit system
n Industrial logistics
n Cassette system
n Automobile system
n Special and project cargo
Brands
n DFDS Tor Line
n DFDS LISCO
n DFDS Shipping Logistics
n DFDS AutoLogistics
n Polferries (limited right of use)
RO-RO SHIPPING (42%)
SHARE OF GROUP
REVENUE
Customer groups
n Haulage contractors and forwarding companies
n Producers of heavy industrial goods, e.g. passenger vehicles
and trucks, steel, forest products, chemicals
n Passengers, primarily in their own vehicles
Comparable companies/competitors
n Cobelfret
n Finnlines
n P&O Ferries
n Stena Line
n Transfennica
Significant events in 2009/2010
n Recession led to reduced volumes and rates in all regions
n Capacity of the route network reduced by 6 %
n Operations and organisation adapted to changing market conditions
n Two smaller ro-ro ships purchased and deployed
in January/February 2009
n Ro-pax newbuilding deployed on the Baltic Sea in May 2009
n Delivery of one chartered ro-ro newbuilding in mid-2009
n Extension of three ro-ro ships completed by mid-2009
n Return of three chartered ro-ro ships at end of 2009,
and chartering out of excess tonnage
n Closure of the route between Latvia and Germany, January 2010
n Agreement reached to charter two ro-ro ships to Norfolkline
in 2010