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What is Container Corporation of India

Chapter 26
Encyclopedia of Business Analytics and Optimization
Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR) is a Category I Miniratna Public sector undertaking under the Indian Ministry of Railways. Incorporated in March 1988 under the Companies Act, Concor commenced operations in November 1989 taking over an existing network of seven inland container depots (ICDs) from Indian Railways.
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Benchmarking of Indian Rail Freight by DEA
Neeraj Bhanot (Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, India), Harwinder Singh (Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, India), and Rajbir Singh Bhatti (Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Engineering & Technology, India)
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5202-6.ch026
Abstract
The overall development of business operations logistics activities becomes more important for firms with the globalization of economy and therefore performance measurement being equally important. In order to break monopolistic control of Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), Indian Railways entered for competition in the container segment in January 2006 through private-public participation for customer centric competitiveness. The purpose of this book chapter is to benchmark the performance indicators in CONCOR. A case study has been conducted employing basic and super-efficiency models of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) on secondary data of CONCOR, Adani and Gateway container terminals from 1995-96 till 2010-11 for performance evaluation within CONCOR and comparative analysis for three organizations from 2005-06 till 2010-11. The exercise identified efficiency trends fluctuating between 87.5% to 1000% within CONCOR owing to haphazard infrastructure developed while comparison with private players showed 38.31% to 77.59% efficiency fluctuation concurrent to licensing policy norms.
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Benchmarking Performance Indicators of Indian Rail Freight by DEA Approach
Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR) is a Category I Miniratna Public sector undertaking under the Indian Ministry of Railways. Incorporated in March 1988 under the Companies Act, Concor commenced operations in November 1989 taking over an existing network of seven inland container depots (ICDs) from Indian Railways.
Published in Chapter: Benchmarking Performance Indicators of Indian Rail Freight by DEA Approach; From: Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Business Operations and Management
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Benchmarking Performance Indicators of Indian Rail Freight by DEA Approach
Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR) is a Category I Miniratna Public sector undertaking under the Indian Ministry of Railways. Incorporated in March 1988 under the Companies Act, Concor commenced operations in November 1989 taking over an existing network of seven inland container depots (ICDs) from Indian Railways.
Published in Chapter: Benchmarking Performance Indicators of Indian Rail Freight by DEA Approach; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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