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Freight Ferry | Ferry route competitive dynamics are mostly stable
Ferry business in general is characterised as capital intensive
and a mature market
No. of ferries
Routes (examples)
on route
Min. required
no. of ships
for entry
Capacity
impact
of entry¹
Dover-Calais
7
3
43%
Competitive dynamics
Ferry routes typically deploy 1-3 ferries
Stepwise addition of 1 or more ferries on a route thus
increases capacity significantly
Additional capacity only attracts marginal extra volumes, if
at all
• Overcapacity untenable for longer periods due to high fixed
cost
Overcapacity situations:
• 2012: Gothenburg-Immingham
.
2012-2015: Dover-Calais
2022-?: Dover-Calais
1) Assumes entered ships are identical to incumbent ships and same no. of departures per ship
Gothenburg-Immingham
3
2
67%
Fredericia- Copenhagen-
1
1
100%
Klaipeda
222
22
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