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Container Corporation of India Limited, known across trade as CONCOR, is a Navratna public-sector company of the Government of India under the Ministry of Railways. It is the listed organisation that built rail-based container transport for India’s maritime and inland trade, and it remains the market leader among container terminals on the national rail map. The company was incorporated in March 1988 under the Companies Act. Commercial operations began in November 1989, when it took over seven inland container depots from Indian Railways and started running them as a dedicated container logistics enterprise rather than as a departmental sideline. From those seven depots the network grew into a countrywide system of inland container depots, container freight stations, and multimodal logistics parks. CONCOR’s core is inland rail movement of ISO and domestic containers between hinterland terminals and gateway ports, and between domestic consumption and production centres. Rail is the principal haul; road completes first-mile pickup and last-mile delivery so a booking can run door to door. The same organisation later added port-side terminal management, air-cargo complexes, and cold-chain capacity for temperature-sensitive cargo, so a shipper can stay with one public operator from factory or farm to port, airport, or inland warehouse. The commercial offer is built for people who actually move boxes. Customers book and track consignments, consult terminal lists and published tariffs, read dangerous-goods handling notes, and follow investor disclosures as a listed Navratna. A newer generation of rail wagons and rakes, more customer-oriented commercial processes, and information systems designed for containerisation sit behind the public windows. The fleet and terminal estate are sized for both EXIM and domestic streams: export-import boxes that must meet vessel cut-offs, and domestic containers that keep factories, retailers, and agricultural belts supplied without forcing every tonne onto the highway. CONCOR’s terminals are organised as EXIM, domestic, combined, and selected strategic tie-ups, covering industrial belts from the National Capital Region and the north-west through western ports, southern manufacturing clusters, and the eastern and north-eastern gateways. Double-stack and Dedicated Freight Corridor connectivity at key parks such as Dadri tighten the rail spine between northern hinterlands and western ports. Tughlakabad remains a flagship inland depot for North India’s export-import traffic. Across the map the company still presents itself as the public rail container carrier for maritime trade, not as a general trucker that happens to use trains. Headquarters remain at CONCOR Bhawan on Mathura Road in New Delhi. For exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and domestic shippers, the practical value is one accountable operator for rail container slots, terminal handling, documentation interfaces, and last-mile road, with tariffs and investor information published rather than hidden in a private rate card. That combination of statutory origin, rail scale, and multimodal add-ons is why CONCOR still defines containerised rail logistics in India more than three decades after those first seven depots changed hands.