What are CONCOR depots and where are they located?

CONCOR (Container Corporation of India) operates several container depots throughout the country. As of [1/00] there were 31 Inland Container Depots (ICDs) with facilities for international freight and connected to ports. These are classified based on whether or not they have a Container Freight Station (CFS), and whether they are equipped to handle port freight. A CFS facility allows freight to be loaded / unloaded to or from containers, and aggregated or distributed; at an ICD without a CFS, containers can only be routed to different destinations without being opened and loaded or unloaded.

There are 9 depots with facilities only for domestic freight, known as Domestic Container Terminals (DCTs). Some of the depots are purely road-fed (Pithampur in Indore, Mulund in Mumbai, Milavittan in Tuticorin, Babarpur in Panipat, and Malanpur in Gwalior), but the rest are connected to IR's rail network. Some 35-40 rail corridors on IR have been identified for fast containerized goods services (CONTRACK).

Some of CONCOR's container depots are listed below (this is not a comprehensive list!):

• Inland Container Depots with CFS (Container Freight Stations)
  • Tughlakabad (New Delhi)
  • Whitefield (Bangalore)
  • Sanatnagar (Hyderabad)
  • Coimbatore
  • Nagpur
  • New Mulund (Mumbai)
  • Mulund (Mumbai)
  • Belaganj (Agra)
  • Tondiarpet (Chennai)
  • Amingaon (Guwahati)
  • Anaparthi
  • Guntur
  • Chirala
  • Moradabad (at site of former steam shed)
  • Sabarmati (Ahmedabad)
  • Madurai
  • Pithampur (Indore)
  • Malivitan (Tuticorin)
  • Baburpur (Panipat)
  • Daulatabad (Aurangabad)
  • Malanpur (Gwalior)
  • Mandideep (Bhopal)
  • Mirzapur (UP) [2006]
  • Sonepat (Haryana) [2006]
  • Dhapad (Punjab) [2006]

• Inland Container Depots without CFS (Container Freight Stations)
  • Dhandarikalan (Ludhiana)
  • Wadi Bunder (Mumbai)
  • Chinchwad (Pune)
  • Cochin
  • Cossipore (Calcutta)
  • Surat SEZ

• Port-side Container Terminals
  • Madras Harbour
  • Kakinada
  • Kandla
  • Cossipore Road (Calcutta)
  • Haldia (Calcutta)
  • Shalimar (Calcutta).

• Domestic Container Terminals
  • Tughlakabad (New Delhi)
  • Dhandarikalan (Ludhiana)
  • Whitefield (Bangalore)
  • Salem Market
  • Tondiarpet (Chennai)
  • Cossipore Road (Calcutta)
  • Shalimar (Calcutta)
  • Kankaria (Ahmedabad)
  • Wadi Bunder (Mumbai)
  • Fathua (Patna) [1/03]

• Proposed container terminals... [2/02]
  • Balasore
  • Bhusawal
  • Raipur
  • Vadodara
  • Kanpur
  • Jamshedpur
  • Jaipur
  • Jodhpur
  • Rajkot
  • Turbhe (Mumbai)
  • Miraj
  • Dadri
  • Ankleshwar
  • Shalimar / Kolkata (proposed additional ICD)
  • New Delhi (additional terminal)
  • Arakkonam (under construction)
  • Pondicherry (under construction)
  • Tatanagar (under construction)

• Proposed container terminals... [5/05]
  • Varanasi
  • Vishakhapatnam
  • Khodiyar (extension of Sabarmati ICD)