News / DFDS lays up 12 of its 50 ferries as first-quarter profits decline

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Danish ferry group DFDS has laid up around 20% of its capacity – 12 of its 50-strong fleet – in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

And it has revealed that it expects first-quarter profits to have fallen 10%, year on year.

In addition to closing two routes last month – Oslo-Copenhagen and Newcastle-Amsterdam, which were more reliant on passenger revenues – chief executive Torben Carlsen said some 25% of its cross-Channel departures had been suspended.

He believed this was a similar amount to ...