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DFDS pledges to continue France and Netherlands sailings

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Ferry operator DFDS will continue to operate passenger routes between the UK, France and Netherlands, despite the government decision to add the countries to the quarantine list.

The company runs 57 sailings a day on routes from Dover to Calais and Dunkirk; three per day between Newhaven and Dieppe; and daily crossings between Newcastle and Amsterdam.

Kasper Moos, head of DFDS’ short routes and passenger business, said: “Customers with existing bookings or those considering booking a holiday to Europe can rest assured that we will continue to operate our passenger routes between the UK, France and Holland.

“While arrangements may have changed for what they must do when they return from their break, we continue to provide a safe and relaxing means to travel to and from the continent.”

DFDS has introduced safety measures onboard its ships to allow for social distancing and enhanced cleaning regimes.

On its Dover-France routes, all bookings include a free meal in the onboard restaurants, meaning passengers can avoid having to break their journey to stop for food before getting onboard.

For the Newcastle-Amsterdam route, passengers can pre-book dinner and breakfast options during the online booking process.

Customers travelling on its routes from Dover and Newcastle have a ‘Travel Guarantee’, so they can cancel their journey and re-book for a future date for free.

Cruise.co.uk partners with marketing specialist Tradedoubler

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An affiliate marketing programme is being launched by Cruise.co.uk in partnership with performance marketing specialist Tradedoubler.

The online cruise agent will benefit from integrated tracking across desktop, mobile devices and landline in order to diversify its marketing channels and boost sales.

This will enable the company to capture and track all audiences, both online and offline.

Tradedoubler has also worked with Cruise.co.uk to produce a creative marketing and commercial model to help drive traffic and sales to the cruise aggregator’s website.

Tradedoubler already works with travel providers such as Royal Caribbean, DFDS and Expedia.

Cruise.co.uk head of strategic partnerships Brendon Collins said: “Prospective consumers often want to talk to a cruise agent, even if they’ve found a discounted deal online.

“With our previous affiliate marketing campaigns, we were unable to track [once the customer was on the phone] which online promotion the lead had generated from.

“However, we will be able to track the history of the consumer’s purchase journey from start to finish and the network of publishers accordingly, thanks to Tradedoubler’s seamlessly integrated tracking tool.”

Dan Cohen, regional director at Tradedoubler added: “Affiliate marketing programmes progressively need to be integrated through multiple channels and be tracked, to capture optimal audiences and maximise the return-on-investment for the advertiser.

“By being able to track the full purchase journey, advertisers will gain insight to keep re-modelling and evolving their affiliate marketing programmes, to further drive traffic and sales.”

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DFDS boss dismisses rival bid for SeaFrance

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DFDS boss dismisses rival bid for SeaFrance

Nov 16, 2011 08:10AM GMT

The boss of Danish ferry giant DFDS has claimed that only his company can rescue struggling cross-channel operator SeaFrance.

President and chief executive Niels Smedegaard dismissed a rival offer from a workers’ co-operative for the French ferry firm as a “mirage”. His comments came ahead of a Paris commercial court convening today to rule on the two bids.

SeaFrance has suspended operations for 48 hours on the Dover-Calais route while waiting for the outcome of the court hearing.

The DFDS bid, which has France’s LD Lines as a minority partner, involves creating a new company operating several channel routes: Dover-Calais, Dunkirk-Dover (DFDS) and Le Havre-Portsmouth and Dieppe-Newhaven (LD Lines).

Three of SeaFrance’s fleet of four vessels would be retained, with a freight ferry switched to Dover-Dunkirk instead of Calais. DFDS-LD Lines would retain only 460 workers out of the SeaFrance workforce of more than 800.

Smedegaard, quoted by French regional newspaper La Voix du Nord, said: “The co-op’s bid does not have any financing and also makes provision to retain four vessels and all of the workforce.

“In the current crisis situation, with the competition and over-capacity which exists on the cross-Channel market today, the co-op’s project just isn’t viable.” He added: “Certain people still believe that the French state will intervene financially but the EU has made it clear that this is no longer possible.

“Is France going to go against the EU? The reality is, apart from DFDS, no one is interested in SeaFrance.” His comments came as DFDS today delivered a 47.6% rise in third quarter profits to DKK 332 million and forecast a year end operating profit of DKK 1.5 billion.

Smedegaard described the results as being in line with expectations following a “decisive turnaround” in earnings from transport and logistics activities.

“There is growing uncertainty about future growth in Europe’s economies, but regardless of the prospect of lower growth in some markets, DFDS’ solid capital structure and efficiency projects put us in a strong position to face the future,” he said.