Girteka
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| Company type | Privately held company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Logistics |
| Founder | Mindaugas Raila |
| Headquarters | , |
Area served | Europe |
Key people | Edvardas Liachovičius (CEO) |
| Revenue | €996.9 million (2020)[1] |
19,100,000 Euro (2018)  | |
Number of employees | 995[1] (2020) |
| Website | girteka |
Girteka Logistics is Europe's leading asset based transport company based in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It was founded in 1996 by Mindaugas Raila who, at the age of 24, bought a single used truck complete with a trailer.[2][3]
Today, it is one of Europe's largest transport companies.[4] The company delivers more than 730 000 full truck loads annually and grew organically from 600 trucks in 2010 to more than 7 400 trucks and 7 800 trailers operating in Europe, Scandinavia and CIS as of 2019.
References
- ^ a b "Didžiausios Lietuvos bendrovės 2021" [Largest companies of Lithuania 2021]. Verslo Žinios (in Lithuanian). 31 May 2021. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
- ^ Trucks, RoadStars – powered by Mercedes-Benz. "RoadStars: Lean & clean". roadstars.mercedes-benz.com.
- ^ "Conditions for road transport workers splits Europe into east and west — Nordic Labour Journal". www.nordiclabourjournal.org.
- ^ Ludo Segers; Justinas Šuliokas. "Lithuania's public secret, Europe's biggest transport company is located here". DELFI. The Lithuania Tribune.