DFDS had the great pleasure of taking delivery of the first newbuilt passenger vessel contracted by DFDS since SCANDINAVIA was delivered in 1982.
AURA SEAWAYS was built at Guangzhou Shipyard International also known as GSI in Southern China. With 4500 lane meters, she will by far become our largest RoPax ferry in terms of cargo capacity. With a deadweight -the term for cargo/payload, fuel, ballast and stores capacity of around 12750 tons, she can carry almost three times more than SCANDINAVIA.
AURA SEAWAYS fulfils the new design standards of EEDI i.e., Energy Efficiency Design Index, and the CO2 emissions per trailer are more than 20 % lower than on the vessels currently trading on the intended routes Karlshamn-Klaipeda and Kiel-Klaipeda.
Our colleagues have eagerly awaited her in BU Baltic, and we hope she will serve them well.
A great thank you and recognition to the site team and crew who are working hard under difficult conditions in China to prepare the vessel for the voyage to Europe. We wish them fair winds.
DFDS provides ferry and logistics services in Europe and Turkey, generating annual revenues of DKK 17bn. Their 8,000 employees are located on ferries and in offices across 20 countries. DFDS was founded in 1866, is headquartered in Copenhagen, and listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen. DFDS strives for continuous improvement of our customer services and operational efficiency, development of our digital capabilities, and leveraging the strength of our European platform through acquisition.