DFDS A/S Due Diligence

Run due diligence on DFDS A/S: check compliance and get alerts when suppliers or ownership change.

Denmark · owned by Independent (Denmark) · dfds.com · 29 vendors

DFDS is Northern Europe's leading transport provider, operating ferry, road and rail transport with complementary logistics solutions. The company connects European countries with each other, as well as with Türkiye and North Africa, carrying 5.5 million passengers annually and transporting trailer freight units.

Resilience scores

Technology vendors

Services catalogue

1 service in catalogue across 1 category; runs on 29 sub-vendors.

Insights

Last updated 2026-09-13 · revision 39

29 direct vendors, 224 subvendors

Direct vendors by controlling owner country (sample)

Subvendors by controlling owner country (sample)

Compliance

5 in-scope frameworks identified; showing 3.

GDPR (source) — Evidence found

DFDS is headquartered in Denmark (EU) and processes extensive personal data from passengers, employees, and business customers across Europe, making it subject to GDPR.

Evidence: https://www.dfds.com/en/legal/privacy

ISO 27001 (source) — No public evidence

As a major transport operator with extensive digital infrastructure and customer data processing, ISO 27001 certification would demonstrate information security management.

Evidence: https://dfds.com, https://www.dfds.com/en/about

ISAE 3000 (source) — No public evidence

As a publicly listed company with sustainability reporting, ISAE 3000 assurance may be required for specific ESG reporting.

Evidence: https://www.dfds.com/en/about, https://www.dfds.com/en/about/sustainability

Financials

Three-year financials

Financial Resilience Score: 7.5/10

This score reflects a strong and diversified business model, but acknowledges its exposure to macroeconomic cycles and high capital intensity. DFDS operates two complementary divisions: Ferry and Logistics. This diversification provides a natural hedge. While the passenger-heavy Ferry division was impacted by travel restrictions during the pandemic, its freight operations remained robust. The Logistics division provides stable, contract-based revenue streams, reducing overall volatility. DFDS maintains a prudent approach to debt. Its key leverage metric, Net Interest-Bearing Debt (NIBD) to EBITDA, stood at 2.8x at the end of 2023. This is within the company's long-term target of below 3.0x and is considered a healthy level for a capital-intensive industry, providing flexibility for strategic moves. The business is inherently exposed to economic downturns (which affect freight volumes), fuel price volatility, and geopolitical events (e.g., Brexit's long-term effects, Red Sea disruptions impacting supply chains). Furthermore, the industry faces increasing environmental regulations (e.g., IMO 2030/2050), requiring significant future capital expenditure on greener fleet technologies.

Key strengths: Diversified Business Model, Manageable Leverage, Strong Market Position, Proven M&A Capability

Risk factors: Exposure to economic downturns, Fuel price volatility, Geopolitical events, Increasing environmental regulations

Revenue by product/service

Workforce by country

Signed-in users can see whether their own company is exposed to this vendor's disruption, plus the full sub-vendor list and country breakdowns, every in-scope compliance framework plus gaps and next steps, and alerts when any of it changes.

View the full interactive report