{"id":128443,"date":"2026-07-13T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/128443\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:00:15","slug":"dfds-reports-mixed-may-growth-as-freight-steadies-but-passengers-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/128443\/","title":{"rendered":"DFDS reports mixed May growth as freight steadies but passengers decline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Passenger volumes fell 1.9% year-on-year to 443,000, adjusted for route changes, primarily from reduced Gibraltar sailings offset by stronger Channel demand. Over the last twelve months, freight lane metres increased 0.3% to 41.8 million, but passengers declined significantly to 5.0 million, down 14.2% year-on-year or 5.0% when adjusted for network changes.<\/p>\n

The results reflect seasonal volatility and regional divergence across DFDS’s ferry network.<\/p>\n

DFDS ferry volumes<\/p>\n

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May<\/p>\n

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Last-12-months<\/p>\n

Freight<\/p>\n

2024<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

2026<\/p>\n

Change<\/p>\n

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2024<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

2026<\/p>\n

Change<\/p>\n

Lane metres, ‘000<\/p>\n

3,510<\/p>\n

3,672<\/p>\n

3,604<\/p>\n

-1.8%<\/p>\n

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39,839<\/p>\n

41,658<\/p>\n

41,765<\/p>\n

0.3%<\/p>\n

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Passenger<\/p>\n

2024<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

2026<\/p>\n

Change<\/p>\n

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2024<\/p>\n

2025<\/p>\n

2026<\/p>\n

Change<\/p>\n

Passengers, ‘000<\/p>\n

574<\/p>\n

452<\/p>\n

443<\/p>\n

-1.9%<\/p>\n

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5,288<\/p>\n

5,849<\/p>\n

5,018<\/p>\n

-14.2%<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Shippax<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Passenger volumes fell 1.9% year-on-year to 443,000, adjusted for route changes, primarily from reduced Gibraltar sailings offset by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6052],"tags":[1357,6057,1358,1356,1359],"class_list":["post-128443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dfds","tag-cruise","tag-dfds","tag-ferry","tag-ro-ro","tag-statistical-data"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116912326570533849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}