{"id":70363,"date":"2025-11-05T02:43:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/dfds-to-sell-freight-ferry-for-fleet-optimization\/70363\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T23:43:54","slug":"dfds-to-sell-freight-ferry-for-fleet-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/dfds-to-sell-freight-ferry-for-fleet-optimization\/70363\/","title":{"rendered":"DFDS to Sell Freight Ferry for Fleet Optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-11-04T13:36:40.0000000\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n            <span class=\"date\">November 4, 2025<\/span>&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2025-11-04T13:36:40.0000000\"\/>&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n                <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        Selandia Seaways is set to operate on DFDS&#8217; Tunis-Marseille route. \u00a9 DFDS&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p>DFDS has entered an agreement to sell the freight ferry (RoRo) Cappadocia Seaways as a part of DFDS\u2019 ongoing fleet optimization.<\/p>\n<p>After more than 23 years of service, DFDS is selling the freight ferry Cappadocia Seaways, following an evaluation of DFDS\u2019s current and future capacity needs across its network.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry has been a part of DFDS\u2019 fleet operating in the Mediterranean network. In its place, DFDS will deploy Selandia Seaways which is a 197m long freight ferry with a capacity up to 2,772 lane meters, equivalent to 177 trailers.<\/p>\n<p>Selandia Seaways is set to operate on the Tunis-Marseille route, while the freight ferry Gallipoli Seaways, will replace Cappadocia Seaways on the Mersin\u2013Trieste route. The Tunis-Marseille route has seen steady volume growth over the years and with Selandia Seaways, DFDS is well-positioned to further develop the route in the coming years and sustain the growth momentum.<\/p>\n<p>DFDS operates six routes within its Mediterranean business unit, using a fleet of 17 vessels connecting T\u00fcrkiye, North Africa and Europe. DFDS\u2019 total ferry route network consists of 30 routes of which 17 are freight-only routes and 13 are combined freight and passenger routes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; November 4, 2025&#13; &#13; &#13; Selandia Seaways is set to operate on DFDS&#8217; Tunis-Marseille route. \u00a9 DFDS&#13; DFDS has entered an agreement to sell the freight ferry (RoRo) Cappadocia Seaways as a part of DFDS\u2019 ongoing fleet optimization. After more than 23 years of service, DFDS is selling the freight ferry Cappadocia Seaways, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/70364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}