Counting 18 metres per ro-ro cargo unit, the company's shipping division carried nearly 1.74 million trucks & trailers January-through-September this year.

With 12.74m lm filled (+0.6% year-on-year), DFDS' Channel trade came first, followed by the North Sea (-1.5% yoy to 10.16m lmf), the Mediterranean (-2.4% yoy to 4.01m lmf), the Baltic Sea (+1.8% yoy to 2.72m lmf), and the Strait of Gibraltar (+8.8% yoy to 1.62m lmf).

DFDS' freight fleet capacity utilisation rate rose from 61% to 63%.

Following the sale of the Copenhagen-Oslo service, DFDS' passenger traffic decreased by 21.1% yoy to 4.37m ferry travellers. The Channel business area led the chart with almost 3.2m (+1.8% yoy), with the Strait of Gibraltar coming in second (-41.1% yoy to 979k), and the Baltic Sea third (+7.1% yoy to 197k). DFDS' ferries also transported fewer passenger vehicles, down 10% yoy to 1.17m.