After giving up the acquisition of the international network of the Turkish Ekol Logistics, an operation announced in April and cancelled in recent days due to the responsibility that DFDS charged on contract terms that were not met and that Ekol blamed unfair demands made by the group Danish maritime and logistics ( of 9 April and 4 November 2024), on Friday DFDS unexpectedly Press Release of Acquisition of the Company's International Network that connects Turkey to Europe.

The Copenhagen group specified that the acquisition is based on a revision of the previous agreement, in particular in relation to the amount of debt included in the transaction. If in April, DFDS announced that the acquisition had a value of 1.9 billion Danish kroner (€260 million), now has announced that the acquisition takes place at a price of 1.8 billion of crowns (240 million euros) which does not include debts. The group Danish specified that since last April Ekol has contracted additional debts that are excluded from the new agreement and that the value of the of the transaction, amounting to 1.5 billion crowns is unchanged from last April.

DFDS also announced that the new agreement also includes an option to extend the duration of the arrangement under which the DFDS ships dock at the Ekol ro-ro terminal in the port of Turkish Yalova. The fleet of ro-pax ships that the DFDS Group operates in the Mediterraneo has Ekol Logistics as its main customer.

Confirming that the transaction by the scheduled date of last November 1st, the President of Ekol, Ahmet Musul, expressed his thanks for the great attention and support to the sale procedure of the activities by Burak Daglioglu, president of the Investment Office of the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey, which - explained Musul - "have allowed the parties to meet and reconsider negotiations'. Specifying that for Ekol the operation had and has the purpose of creating the basis for proceed more quickly and more solidly towards the company's sustainable growth objectives in the technology, warehouse management and distribution, while allowing DFDS to expand its logistics network in and to connect it to Turkey by offering solutions end-to-end logistics and transport services to customers trading between Turkey and Europe, Musul highlighted that "this decision is also of great importance to contribute to the to the influx of foreign capital into our country".