Type
Business expansion
Country
Lithuania
Region
Lietuva;
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Transportation / Storage
Land, Water And Air Transportation
Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines
49.41 - Freight transport by road

2,000 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
10 December 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016

Description

Girteka Logistics, one of the biggest transport and logistics companies in Lithuania, is to create 2,000 new jobs in 2016. According to the management, after experiencing significant staff shortages and turnover in 2015, the company has started a new employee recruitment and retention strategy that will focus on new staff management policies. The company is expecting that the strategy will help them to employ 2,000 new drivers in 2016.

Currently Girteka Logistics employs around 7,100 employees: 6,000 of them are drivers; around 70% of them are non-EU nationals coming from Belarus, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.


Sources

  • 10 December 2015: Verslo zinios

Citation

Eurofound (2015), Girteka Logistics, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 85755, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85755.