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Dæmpa also developed a ‘heavy duty’ version of the DCC
strips using thicker steel and with larger perforations for use
in ferries’ vehicle decks and other comparable types of
space ashore – for example car parks and bus stations. An
early installation was in the vehicle decks of the Mols-Linien
ferries Mette Mols and Maren Mols, built in Elsinore and
completed in 1975.
Other notable ferries of the subsequent era in which DCC
was used in the accommodation included a further, even
larger DFDS North Sea ferry, the Dana Anglia, delivered
from the Aalborg shipyard in 1978 and the Jens Kofoed and
Povl Anker of Bornholmstrafikken, which also were Aalborg-built and which entered service in 1978 and 1979 to
link Copenhagen and Ystad in Sweden with the island of
Bornholm in the southern Baltic Sea.
By the latter 1970s, the DCC system had gained a 90 per
cent market share in Denmark and a large share of the wider
European ship interior outfitting market. Coming from
nowhere to domination in the sector was indeed a remarkable achievement and a testament of the efficacy of a product range that still remains in production over half-a-century
since its initial launch.
Car deck, circa 2000
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