Girteka

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Girteka
Company type Privately held corporate group
Industry Logistics
Founder Mindaugas Raila
Headquarters
Vilnius
,
Lithuania
Area served
 Europe
Key people
 Edvardas Liachovičius (CEO, Girteka Group) Pavel Kveten (CEO, Girteka Logistics)
ServicesTemperature-controlled and high-value cargo transportation.
Revenue €1.93 billion (2022) [1]
€164 million (2021) [1]
€67 million (2021) [1]
Total assets €1.021 billion (2021) [1]
Total equity €0.274 billion (2021) [1]
Number of employees
13,000 [1]  (2025)
Website girteka.eu
Girteka Road Transport Truck Girteka Trucks.jpg
Girteka Road Transport Truck
Girteka trucks in Vilnius Girteka by Augustas Didzgalvis.jpg
Girteka trucks in Vilnius

Girteka is a Lithuanian [2] transport and logistics company based in the city of Vilnius, operating in Europe and Scandinavia. It was founded in 1996 by Mindaugas Raila who, at the age of 24, bought a single used truck complete with a trailer. [3] [4]

Today, it is one of Europe's largest asset-based logistics companies. [5] Girteka delivers more than 700,000 full truck loads (FTLs) every year, with more than 6,000 fully owned trucks and 7,000 trailers that operate across mainland Europe, the UK, and Scandinavia. [1] [6] Up to 95% of jobs are dispatched electronically, [7] resulting in 97–99% DIFOT.

Today, the company employs more than 13,000 people from more than 20 nationalities. Girteka has offices in Lithuania, Poland, Georgia, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. [5]

Scope of Services

Girteka specializes in temperature-controlled and high-value cargo transportation across the continent, delivering a wide range of goods, including fresh, chilled, frozen, and processed foods. [8]

Focusing on the following operational segments within road transportation:

  1. Food [9] and Beverage [10]
  2. Electronics and High-Tech [11]
  3. Healthcare and Pharma [12]
  4. Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) [13]
  5. Retail [14]
  6. E-commerce and Parcels [15]
  7. Automotive [16]
  8. Industrial and Manufacturing [17]
  9. Fashion and Lifestyle [18]
  10. Agricultural [19]
  11. Cosmetics and Hygiene [20]
  12. Chemicals [21]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "ANNUAL-REPORT-2022" (PDF). Girteka Logistics. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  2. ↑ Segers, Ludo; Šuliokas, Justinas (2017-10-23). "Lithuania's public secret, Europe's biggest transport company is located here". Delfi.lt. The Lithuania Tribune. Retrieved 10 February 2025.
  3. ↑ Trucks, RoadStars – powered by Mercedes-Benz. "RoadStars: Lean & clean". roadstars.mercedes-benz.com.
  4. ↑ "Conditions for road transport workers splits Europe into east and west — Nordic Labour Journal". www.nordiclabourjournal.org.
  5. 1 2 Ludo Segers; Justinas Šuliokas. "Lithuania's public secret, Europe's biggest transport company is located here". DELFI. The Lithuania Tribune.
  6. ↑ "Annual Report 2022" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "Case Study: Girteka". Track-POD.
  8. ↑ "Girteka - Cold Chain Logistics Services". 2024-10-30. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  9. ↑ "Temperature-Controlled Logistics - Refrigerated Transport". 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  10. ↑ "Beverage Transportation Services - Road Transportation". 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  11. ↑ "High-Value Cargo Transportation - Secure Logistics - Girteka". 2025-01-19. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  12. ↑ "Pharma & Healthcare Logistics - Pharma Transport - Girteka". 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  13. ↑ "Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Transportation - Logistics". 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  14. ↑ "Logistics Solutions for Retail Supply Chain - Girteka". 2025-01-18. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  15. ↑ "Logistics solutions for E-commerce & Parcels - Girteka". 2024-11-03. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  16. ↑ "Road Transportation Services for Automotive - Girteka". 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  17. ↑ "Road Transportation Services Industrial & Manufacturing". 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  18. ↑ "Fashion & Lifestyle Logistics - Transportation Services". 2025-01-19. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  19. ↑ "Road Transportation of Agricultural Products - Girteka". 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  20. ↑ "Road Transportation for Cosmetics & Hygiene". 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
  21. ↑ "Road Transportation for Chemicals - Girteka". 2025-01-20. Retrieved 2025-12-05.
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