Communication & links

The county borough has first-class road and rail communications and is just 12 miles from Cardiff International Airport.

By road
There are three junctions with the M4, providing access to the national motorway network, directly joining the M5 and M6 with easy links to and from the Midlands, north, south and west of England

By rail
Bridgend is on the main London (Paddington) to Swansea line and journey times are approx two hours with regular services between Bridgend and London each weekday. Rail links also operate to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Southampton, Portsmouth and many other major UK cities.

By air
Business travellers are well served for international, European and domestic connections. Cardiff international Airport lies approx 30 minutes drive time from Bridgend and provides direct schedule passenger service to major cities in the UK, mainland Europe and North America.
The airport has spacious modern freight handling facilities with secure warehousing and complete ground handling 24 hours a day for containers and wagons.

By sea
There are five seaports in close proximity to the County Borough; Newport, Cardiff, Barry, Port Talbot and Swansea. They can handle vessels from 23,000 tons dead-weight up 130,000 tons dead-weight.