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DFDS Seaways

Headquarters: Copenhagen
Founded: 1992
Employees: —

Photo: W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

160,680

Summed over 5 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What DFDS Seaways is

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DFDS Seaways is a Danish shipping company that operates passenger and freight services across northern Europe. Following the acquisition of Norfolkline in 2010, DFDS restructured its other shipping divisions (DFDS Tor Line and DFDS Lisco) into the previously passenger-only operation of DFDS Seaways.

Quoted from DFDS Seaways on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: simplified joint-stock company
Country of registration: Denmark
Headquarters: Copenhagen
Formed in: —
Founded: 1992
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 55.6761, 12.5689

Ships on record here: 5
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 16.8 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1992
Newest vessel on record: 2021
Largest vessel by tonnage: 54,900
Average tonnage: 32,136
Market share: —
Parent company: DFDS
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 5 vessels this registry attributes to DFDS Seaways. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Boelwerf1

CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Company1

Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft1

Hijos de J. Barreras1

Nuovi Cantieri Apuania1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 2 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	1	32,336	4
2018	0	—	4
2019	0	—	4
2020	0	—	4
2021	1	54,900	5
2022	0	—	5
2023	0	—	5
2024	0	—	5
2025	0	—	5
2026	0	—	5

Vessel records

Ships on record

5 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Aura Seaways	9851036	Ro-Ro	Denmark	2021	54,900	12,000	230.0 m	CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Company
Gardenia Seaways	9809095	Unclassified	Lithuania	2017	32,336	10,310	209.6 m	Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft
Isle of Innisfree	8908466	Ro-Ro	France	1992	28,838	—	162.0 m	Boelwerf
Regina Seaways	9458535	Unclassified	Lithuania	2010	25,666	7,500	199.1 m	Nuovi Cantieri Apuania
Seven Sisters	9320130	Ferry	France	2006	18,940	—	142.7 m	Hijos de J. Barreras

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How DFDS Seaways compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 5 vessels attributed to it here, DFDS Seaways is the 174th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Denmark is the country of registration for 52 commercial operators in this directory, among which DFDS Seaways ranks 10th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 122 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Denmark.

Founded in 1992, DFDS Seaways is 34 years old. This directory holds 140 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.