From Roads to Rail: LTG Cargo Presents Green Kilometers Certificates to Businesses
The LTG Group’s rail freight company LTG Cargo has awarded Green Kilometers certificates to businesses that chose intermodal transport for the fourth time – documents proving how much greenhouse gas emissions were saved by their decision to transport at least part of the cargo route by rail. Companies that used intermodal transport services saved a total of 24,400 t CO2e last year.
Minister of Transport Juras Taminskas congratulates all recipients of the Green Kilometers certificates and welcomes their contribution to a greener future.
“Intermodal transport helps businesses diversify their services, improves the efficiency of freight transport, and reduces the environmental impact of transportation. It is particularly important that this enables faster development of transport to the West and integration into European logistics hubs,” notes Minister J. Taminskas.
“Business cannot survive without logistics, and with unstable fuel prices, the transport of goods and cargo becomes a challenge: how to remain competitive? Businesses that choose intermodal transport not only contribute to sustainability but also reduce their dependence on fuel prices,” says Egidijus Lazauskas, CEO of the LTG Group.
It is estimated that rail transport generates up to 9 times fewer greenhouse gases and uses energy 7 times more efficiently. A single intermodal train can replace at least 36 trucks.
“We began calculating greenhouse gas savings four years ago. During this period, thanks to intermodal transport, as much as 188,300 tons of CO2e were kept out of the atmosphere—equivalent to 1% of all greenhouse gas emissions generated in Lithuania annually. “This is the kind of potential the railway can offer for reducing greenhouse gas emissions—if more freight were shifted from the roads, we would see a significant impact,” summarizes Eglė Šimė, head of LTG Cargo, a company that transports freight by rail.
The largest greenhouse gas savings by a single company in 2025 amount to 2,076 tons of CO2e. Over the past four years, 550 companies have already received Green Kilometers certificates – these are awarded to all companies, both Lithuanian and foreign, that use intermodal transport services.
LTG Cargo operates regular intermodal transport services from Vilnius and Kaunas to Klaipėda, and on the European (1,435 mm) gauge from the Kaunas intermodal terminal to Duisburg (Germany) with a stop in Łódź (Poland).
For businesses interested in how much they could save by choosing intermodal transport, LTG Cargo has developed and updated the Green Kilometrage Calculator – a tool that allows users to find out, with just a few clicks, how much CO2e is saved by choosing to transport cargo in a semi-trailer or container by rail rather than by road.
The freight transport company LTG Cargo is a member of the LTG Group and continues to actively pursue integration and expansion in the West. The company provides freight transport, intermodal transport, logistics and freight forwarding, cargo loading, locomotive and railcar repair, and railcar leasing services in Lithuania and abroad. LTG Cargo has established and manages the companies LTG Cargo Polska in Poland and LTG Cargo Ukraine in Ukraine. In developing greener rail freight transport, the company brings together a team of 1,500 logistics professionals.