Ballymena haulage company McBurney Transport has been bought by Danish shipping company DFDS for nearly £138 million.
The move sees the company, which employs more than 800 people across the UK and Ireland, become part of one of the world’s biggest logistics companies as ownership transfer from the McBurney family who founded the business in 1965.
McBurney Transport focuses on transporting trailers between the island of Ireland and Great Britain, the majority of which are temperature controlled units carrying chilled goods. Under one of its subsidiaries, Bondelivery, it also owns warehousing facilities in Northern Ireland which focus on fulfilment for the retail sector and last mile delivery across the island of Ireland.
