The partnership is aimed at improving and strengthening both companies’ multimodal logistics footprints in two key northern European economic areas.

P&O Ferrymasters’ General Manager in Amsterdam, Marcel Manshanden, said: “This new partnership will further strengthen our capacity to find the right solutions for customers who face logistical challenges in transporting goods across Europe in a context of time-critical, cost-constrained supply chains.”

 Scan Global Logistics’ Managing Director for Scan Global Logistics Road Sweden, Peter Anderson, said: “It is a strategically responsible partnership, which goes to show that even in times of uncertainty, opportunities arise and with our combined efforts, the customers of both companies will experience even better logistic options.”

The companies will offer daily FTL, LTL and groupage truck departures between the Benelux region and Sweden. The partnership will use a multimodel cargo model, increasing the operational frequency and efficiency of the route, lowering costs for customers and expanding their range of logistics solution options.

Meanwhile, DFDS is opening an Intermodal Competence Center in the Cologne region, Germany, to enhance its intermodal services offer between Turkey and Europe, over the port of Trieste. The new centre is a joint venture with primeRail Gmbh, an independent intermodal operator based in Troisdorf, in the state of North Rhine Westphalia.  

A large share of the transport volume with Turkey is currently handled by the DFDS regional office for the Mediterranean, based in Istanbul, and is dispatched with the use of multimodal rail-ro solutions via Trieste.

DFDS and primeRail “are convinced that together they can create a strong platform for the development of even more efficient intermodal solutions for the benefit of customers and the environment.”