Sanjay Swarup

Sanjay Swarup is working as Chairman & Managing Director (CMD) in Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR), first listed Navratna CPSE under Ministry of Railways, Government of India. He has done his B.E. (Hons.) – Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT Roorkee and PGDM (Public Policy and Management) from IIM Bangalore. He belongs to 1990 Batch of Indian Railway Traffic Service (IRTS). Mr. Swarup has extensive experience of leadership roles in CPSE and Government. He is an expert in design, operation & management of Dry ports & MMLPs and has got rich experience in Railway operations, commercial and I.T. functions. Mr. Swarup has steered the Company to new heights during the challenging Geo-political scenario when International supply chains have been severally affected. He pioneered the forward integration into Shipping business, whereby CONCOR Containers started going to Middle East and Far East countries and CONCOR started issuing its own Bill of Lading. He started Bulk cement transportation in Tank containers. He has designed/commissioned and operationalized 15 greenfield MMLPs (@INR 3 billion each), took several IT initiatives in the Company like KYCL/Logistics App/Digital workplace solution/AI based TMS and introduced innovative marketing strategies like business solutions/long term agreements/credit policy to make CONCOR the market leader. He was instrumental in running of Assured transit container trains and streamlined the Double stack operations, thereby saving 48% expenses on empty flat wagons. He was instrumental in negotiations and signing of INSTC MoU/service agreement with JSC Russian Railways (RZDL), streamlined intermodal operations to Nepal & Bangladesh and was deeply involved in O&M of the only rail connected Dry port in Nepal. He introduced passive cooling technology in India in collaboration with a Japanese company. His focus areas : Green & Sustainable logistics, Customer centricity and Total logistics solution to Customers. He has been trained at Maxwell School of Syracuse University (USA), Antwerp Port, Belgium and at several Institutes in India. Mr. Swarup has presented number of papers in leading National and International conferences in the areas of Multi Modal Logistics, Dry Ports and Supply Chain Management. He is holding the post of President, Institute of Rail Transport (IRT). He is life member of Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT), Asian Institute of Transport Development (AITD), Centre for Transportation Research and Management (CTRAM) and All India Management Association (AIMA).