Duty-free sale increases earnings at DFDS: "Development in the passenger traffic is better than we thought"

Although DFDS is met with harder competition on the English Channel, the carrier maintains its market share, says Torben Carlsen, CEO of DFDS, which has just raised its full-year guidance. Duty-free sale has increased earnings per ferry passenger.
"We earn more per passenger than we did previously due to the duty-free sale," says DFDS CEO Torben Carlsen. | Photo: DFDS - PR
"We earn more per passenger than we did previously due to the duty-free sale," says DFDS CEO Torben Carlsen. | Photo: DFDS - PR

Even though dark clouds are gathering above the world economy, business at DFDS is unfolding better than expected, and this has made the Danish ferry and logistics company raise its full-year expectations.

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