The Danish shipping and logistics group DFDS has signed an agreement to acquire 98.8 per cent of the shares in the shipping Company.
U.N. Ro-Ro from the Turkish private equity companies Actera and Esas for a price of EUR 950 million. U.N. Ro-Ro is Turkey’s largest operator of Ro-Ro freight ships, and a strong addition to DFDS’ large shipping network in the Baltic Sea, The North Sea and the English Channel. In the Mediterranean, DFDS is today represented by a route between France and Tunisia.
U.N. Ro-Ro employs 500 people and operates five major routes between Turkey and the EU, connecting the Turkish ports of Pendik, Ambarli and Mersin with Trieste and Bari in Italy, Toulon in France and Patras in Greece. The company operates and owns a fleet of 12 large Ro-Ro ships and operates port terminals in Pendik, Istanbul, and Trieste in Italy. In cooperation with rail operators, U.N. Ro-Ro also offers intermodal transport between key EU markets and the ports.
