Started as a family business, the company today has grown with 170+ branches pan-India and a network that employs 4,000+ talented people not to mention a large fleet suitable for transportation of a wide variety of goods
CJ Darcl Logistics, a multimodal logistics service provider, has set an apex target of becoming the number one in its sector in India by the year 2027. The company aims to achieve this by investing in the adoption of advanced technologies such as state-of-the art transport management solutions, technology-driven freight management, fleet centralisation, connecting to customers through unified portal, data-driven decision-making and performance evaluation. The company, which has been instrumental in shaping the economy with its services, has been in existence for more than four decades.
Started in 1975 as a family business, the company today has grown with 170+ branches pan-India and a network that employs 4,000+ talented people. The company has the right mix of owned and market fleet of over 800,000 vehicles. It rakes over 700+ multidimensional containers across India and provides single window solutions to customers via door-to-door services. CJ Darcl Logistics being a smart logistic player operates with an ‘asset right’ model, thus increasing its efficiency and reach in all the regions of the country. It being a ‘technology first’ logistic player has mostly digitalised its operations with company-wide ERP SAP, TMS and other pilot applications.
A Trusted Partner
The implementation of such technologies has eased the flexibility and visibility aspects, thus helping the company fulfil its mission. To understand the geographic location of the consignments, GPS and SIM-based tracking supplement the system that CJ Darcl Logistics has impeccably designed for its distribution channels. This allows them to deliver best-in-class logistics services to all several significant sectors such as FMCG, metal and mining, oil and gas, consumer durables, automobile OEMs, pharmaceuticals, tyres and rubber, renewable energy and others. It has a strong presence in the construction equipment business in South India, mostly through MNCs.
CJ Darcl Logistics being the only multimodal logistics solution provider in the country offers a one-stop solution, providing end-to-end services to its customers including full truck load, rail freight, project logistics, freight forwarding, coastal movement, container cargo, warehousing and distribution, over-dimensional cargo movement and last mile delivery. The company has achieved a success rate of 99% safe deliveries and 98.37% on-time deliveries with 0.01% of accidents, making it the most trusted logistics partner for all leading organisations across segments in India.
For coastal multimodal, apart from the container vessel movement, it also operates in break bulk movement between India and Bangladesh through barges and the products include food grains (rice and wheat in bags) and steel materials (sheet and pipes). CJ Darcl Logistics has adept human efficiency whose workmanlike performances have been serving the company for over 20 years. With such reliability and experience in the organisation, the employees are well-versed with the customer and market needs. “The current market needs more emphasis on multimodal solutions such as customised containers, which allows the company to carry long-heavy products such as pipes, bars, dwarf containers for lightweight cargo, open flexibility containers for glass product movement, etc.,” states Nikhil Agarwal, President, CJ Darcl Logistics Ltd.
Future Growth Curve
To that purpose, CJ Darcl Logistics infuses its own specialised containers as per the client’s cargo requirements, if any. The challenges that face the company are many, including interstate border issues, high cost of tolls, lack of parking infrastructure and proper yards, lack of proper driver training schools for heavy commercial vehicles, etc. “However, the good part is that the government is structuring reforms to rectify these loopholes by introducing initiatives like ‘Make in India’ and others that are expected to give a boost to the manufacturing sector and drive in a huge demand for logistics services and newer warehouses,” points out Agarwal.
Other reforms that recently brought the logistics industry at the centre of attention include the National Logistics Policy that indeed will help in accelerating last-mile deliveries, reduce the cost and alter the turnaround time. This policy ensures multimodal connectivity with systematic infrastructure development and aims to end transport-related challenges while allowing for digitisation to carry out seamless transactions. The logistics industry is said to be the backbone of the economy, contributing to 14.4 per cent of the country’s GDP. CJ Darcl Logistics aims to be at the in this segment with its technology-driven solutions, catering to the needs of all sectors.