Girteka

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Girteka Group
Company type Privately held corporate group
Industry Logistics
Founder Mindaugas Raila
Headquarters,
Area served
Europe
Key people
Jeroen Eijsink (CEO)
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
23,000 [1]  (2022)
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 Group 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 transport companies. [5] Girteka Group delivers more than 775,000 full truck loads (FTLs) every year, with more than 9,200 fully owned trucks and 9,800 trailers that operate in Europe. [1] [6]

Girteka Group consists of:

Today the company has more than 23,000 employees from more than 20 nationalities. Girteka Group has office in Lithuania, Poland, Georgia, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. [7]

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. 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. Ludo Segers; Justinas Šuliokas. "Lithuania's public secret, Europe's biggest transport company is located here". DELFI. The Lithuania Tribune.