Transport Corporation of India Limited has emerged as a leader in the logistics industry due to its push towards end-to-end integrated multimodal logistics along with tech-enabled control towers
Transport Corporation of India Ltd., established in 1958 as a ‘one man, one truck, one office’ company in Calcutta by Late Prabhu Dayal Agarwal (fondly known as PD) with a vision to connect the remotest corners of India has progressed to be the country’s leading integrated multimodal logistics and supply chain solutions’ provider with revenues over Rs 5,000 crore and moving nearly 2.5% of India’s GDP by value every year. Its business divisions include TCI Freight, TCI Supply Chain Solutions and TCI Seaways while its joint ventures include TCI Concor, Transystem and TCI Supply Chain Solutions. It has a sub-division, TCI Chemical Logistics Solutions, and subsidiaries in SAARC viz. TCI Bangladesh and TCI Nepal.
The company adheres to its strong business fundamentals, communicated by the acronym ‘CORE’ that imply customer focus, ownership, responsive and empathy. With expertise spanning over six decades and infrastructure comprising an extensive network of 1,400+ company-owned offices, 13 million sq. feet of warehousing space, three AFTO trains, six coastal cargo ships, 8,000+ marine containers, 650+ ISO tank containers and 12,000+ trucks and a strong team of 5,500+ trained employees, TCI Group has been the first to launch several solutions in the logistics field.
Sustainable Operations
TCI is enhancing its environmental, social and governance (ESG) structure to offer sustainable logistics solutions to its customers and reduce the overall carbon footprint. In the year 2021-22, TCI enabled its customers to save 158,877 tons of CO2, equivalent in terms of GHG emissions and earn green points.
Some of its other initiatives include:
• Push towards end-to-end integrated multimodal logistics along with tech-enabled control towers.
• TCI Safe Safar, which is a health and safety initiative that aims at educating truck drivers and people of the transport community to follow health and safety norms to make India’s roads safer.
• Electronic waste circulation.
• Lighting roads through solar panels along with solar rooftops of TCI warehouses.
• Usage of green materials for development of modern warehouses.
• Adoption of alternative fuels, CNG for commercial vehicles.
“Given the urgency of environmental challenges, the company is focusing on becoming fully compliant with ESG norms and providing efficient green logistics solutions to its customers,” the management states.
Awards and Appreciation
Equally important is the fact that the company is the winner of India’s first National Logistics Excellence awards. TCI’s consistent performance as ‘Leaders in Logistics’ got reinforced when it bagged two awards under the categories of Best Warehouse Service Provider and Best Cold Chain and Refrigerated Service Provider in India’s first National Logistics Excellence awards hosted by the Government of India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. These awards aim at acknowledging the efforts of logistics service providers in the country that have been able to display innovation, diversity and efficiency. “The company dedicates these awards to all TCI ‘yodhas’ who work relentlessly and enable TCI to be ‘everything logistics’ for its customers.