Danish shipping and logistics group DFDS has entered into a Agreement to acquire the entire network of trucking services between Turkey and Europe of the Turkish company Ekol Logistics, a network that covers ten European nations, for DKK 1.9 billion (260 billion Danish kronor) million euros). These are activities that employ 3,700 employees and who generated a turnover of 3.5 in 2023 billion crowns (€470 million).

The operation had been notified to the authority in advance Turkish antitrust authority that had authorized the possible acquisition. The completion of the transaction, expected at the beginning of the quarter quarter of this year, is subject to the achievement of the endorsement by the EU.

With the acquisition, DFDS connects trucking services ceded by Ekol to its network of maritime services for the transport of rolling stock in the Mediterranean, a network that the Danish group has significantly expanded in 2018 with the acquisition of the Turkish U.N. Ro-Ro Navigation ( of 7 June 2018). "This acquisition - he underlined DFDS Chief Executive Officer, Torben Carlsen – represents an excellent strategic combination for DFDS. Our core business is the transport of large volumes of trailers in a way that Reliable and efficient use of combinations of transport road, sea and rail. In addition, we believe that the role of of Turkey as a production hub for Europe will become even more relevant in the future as nearshoring It will bring supply chains closer to end markets." DFDS has highlighted that the forecasts are for an annual growth of +14% of the Turkey-Europe transport market until 2028 sustained precisely from the relocation of more close to the final European markets.