News / DFDS revamps service network from Norway, adding capacity and new call

DFDS has announced plans to shake-up its service network connecting the UK, Norway and continental Europe.

The revamp will, effectively, merge its Brevik-Immingham and Brevik-Ghent services into one triangulated loop.

And it will replace the service’s 19-year-old con-ro ship Lysbris Seaways, which has container capacity of 160 teu and side-loading capacity for ro-ro traffic, with the much larger ro-ro vessel Finlandia Seaways (pictured).

DFDS said the new vessel would allow the company to attract other cargo types beyond its core volumes of Norkse Skog paper.

It added: “In addition to ...