The Board of Directors of Container Corporation of India Limited in its meeting held on September 26, 2023, have appointed Shri Sanjay Swarup (DIN: 05159435), who is the existing Director (International Marketing & Operations), as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of CONCOR from the date of his assumption of charge of the post on or after 01 October 2023 and till 31 July 2026 (i.e. the date of his superannuation) or until further orders, whichever is earlier. Shri Sanjay Swarup is working as Director (International Marketing and Operations) in Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR), a 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 working as Director on the Board of CONCOR, a leading multimodal logistics company of India since September 2016 managing around 80% of Company's business: Marketing, Operations, Infrastructure development & Strategic planning. 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 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 Time tabled container trains and streamlined the Double stack container trains, thereby saving 48% expenses on empty flat wagons. He was actively involved in negotiations and signing of INSTC MoU/service agreement with JSC Russian Railways (RZDL), streamlined intermodal operations to Nepal & Bangladesh and was instrumental in operation & management of the only rail connected Dry port in Nepal.

He organized export of multimodal cargo to Iran in CONCOR owned containers and introduced passive cooling technology in India in collaboration with a Japanese company. He also ensured Continuous cargo visibility to customers and chat based customer grievance system. He played a key role in Company's restructuring from 3-tier to 2-tier, bringing administrative efficiency and financial savings.

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 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).