Private company
DFDS Seaways
Logo: Philphos 18:28, 22 January 2012 (UTC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3
Danish shipping company
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.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
Overview
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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.2
Corporate structure
DFDS Seaways is part of a group headed by DFDS. 7 entities, 4 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.
- DFDS København Ø, Denmark
- DFDS Seaways Copenhagen
- DFDS Seaways France Subsidiary · Dunkirk
- DFDS Distri Holding B.V. Subsidiary · 100% · Winterswijk, Netherlands
- DFDS Property Nijmegen B.V. Subsidiary · 100% · Winterswijk, Netherlands
- AB DFDS Seaways Subsidiary · 99.3% · Klaipėda, Lithuania
- DFDS DENİZCİLİK VE TAŞIMACILIK ANONİM ŞİRKETİ Subsidiary · İstanbul, Turkey
- DFDS Seaways Copenhagen
Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.
What it owns
What DFDS Seaways reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.
Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)
Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1
Subsidiaries and ownership
Parent company
Also owns
From Wikidata.1
Timeline
- Dec 1, 1992Founded Founded1
Links
- WikipediaDFDS Seaways
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ15410089
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataDFDS Seaways on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaDFDS Seaways on Wikipedia
- 3
- 4Wikimedia CommonsDFDS Seaways photo by W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0