Cargo Breaking News
The Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) has entered into a strategic partnership with The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee through the signing of a MoU to advance research and development in the fields of logistics and supply chain management. The MoU was signed by Professor Akshay Dvivedi, Dean of Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy at IIT Roorkee, and Ritu Narang, Senior General Manager (MIS) at CONCOR. Professor Amit Upadhyay from the Department of Management Studies at IIT Roorkee will play a key role in this collaboration, actively participating in all related research activities.
This collaboration between IIT Roorkee, a leading academic institution in India, and CONCOR, a major player in multimodal logistics services, is aimed at fostering research, innovation, and capacity-building initiatives. The partnership will focus on developing advanced optimisation models to improve the efficiency of containerised freight transport across India’s railway network, with a particular emphasis on the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.
As part of the MoU, IIT Roorkee will leverage its academic and research expertise to conduct an in-depth Operations Research study. The study aims to optimise the loading of Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units on double-stack trains, to reduce container rail haulage costs and enhance inter-terminal movements through rail transhipment hubs. Additionally, the collaboration will involve creating an optimisation-based decision support system to facilitate the efficient movement of container trains across CONCOR’s network.
