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Jelgava
Size:
- City – 60,3 km2
- Inhabitants in the city – 65 600
- Inhabitants in the region – 37 000
Distance to:
- Riga – 40 km
- Port of Riga – 70 km
- Port of Ventspils – 180 km
- Port of Liepaja – 180 km
- Lithuanian border – 35 km
- Estonian border – 160 km
- Russian border – 330 km
- Moscow – 900 km
- Stockholm – 460 km
Main road/railway intersections:
Motorway:
- Riga – Jelgava – Siauliai (Lithuania) – Kaliningrad (Russia) (E 77)
Railway:
- Riga – Jelgava – Siauliai (Lithuania)
- Liepaja – Jelgava – Jekabpils – Rezekne – Moscow (Russia)
- Ventspils – Jelgava – Jekabpils – Daugavpils - Vitebsk (Belorussia) – Smolensk (Russia)
Largest foreign enterprises operating in Jelgava:
- AKG Thermotechnik Lettland Ltd. (Germany) develop and produce high-performance heat exchangers and complete cooling modules.
- Torgy Baltic Ltd. (Norway) is a market leader in the supply of pipe
supports and cable clamping systems to the Norwegian oil & gas industry. - Linas Agro Ltd. (Lithuania) is agricultural product manufacturing and trading company.
- SilJa Ltd. (Finnish and Latvian joint venture) trades and repairs agricultural, forestry and communal machinery.
- KKR Ltd. (Germany) produces goods for children.
Largest Latvian enterprises operating in Jelgava:
- Farmers’ co-operative LATRAPS carries out grain and rapeseed pre-processing activities.
- JSC Jelgavas Gaļas kombināts is a food producer.
- KULK Ltd. provides construction services.
- Zemgales Metāls Ltd. operates within the metal working sector.
Labour skills and education:
In 2008, 43 602 of Jelgava’s inhabitants were of active working age. Approximately 19% of all employed are engaged in wholesale and retail trade, 14 % in manufacturing and 13 % are engaged in education. Jelgava city and region can offer specialists with core competences in motor mechanics, computer system maintenance and development, carpentry, agriculture, veterinary medicine. Latvian University of Agriculture with its base in Jelgava and 9,000 students offers developed scientific base. The university offers variety of expertise areas – food technology, civil and environmental engineering, information technologies, forestry and agriculture. Both the scientific staff and students welcome commercial research and collaboration.
Incentives and developments:
Jelgava offers value for money, especially when it comes to infrastructure for logistics operations between Western Europe, Russia and Scandinavia. Municipality can offer application of different tax allowances for manufacturing projects. There is also a successful business incubator, which supports start-up companies during their first three years of operation.
Municipality can offer:
- Excellent transit / logistics infrastructure
- Developed industrial zones
- Research institutions
- Tax allowances
Contact information:
Jelgava City Council
Phone: (+371) 630 05522
Fax: (+371) 630 29059
dome@jelgava.lv
www.jelgava.lv
Real Estate offers for your project:
For more information see full profile of Jelgava
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