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P. Manoj

New Delhi , April 6

P&O Ports, the global port operator that runs container terminals at Nhava Sheva, Chennai and Mundra ports, has carried out a restructuring of staff in its India operations as part of a cost-cutting drive.

The London-based port operating division of Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company has decided to do away with the Chief Executive Officers (CEO) post for each of its three container terminals in the country. In its place, an Executive Director has been appointed to look after all the three terminals with three General Managers working under him.

Mr J.H. Sarbh will be the Chairman and Managing Director of the container terminals run by P&O Ports in South Asia and Middle East comprising Nhava Sheva, Chennai and Mundra in India, Port Qasim in Pakistan and Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Mr Nikhil M. Naik has been appointed Executive Director of all the three container terminals operated by P&O Ports in the country. Before his new appointment, Mr Naik was the CEO of the Mundra International Container Terminal (MICT).

Mr R. Dastoor will be the General Manager at the Nhava Sheva International Container Terminal (NSICT), while Mr K. Krishnadas has been appointed the General Manager of MICT.

P&O Ports has also appointed Mr M. Pillai as the General Manager of Chennai Container Terminal (CCT).

The restructuring of the top staff at its India operations comes in the wake of the retirement of Mr Ramesh G. Khare who was CEO of NSICT and the sudden departure of Mr Ganesh Raj, the CEO of CCT early this year.

Mr Ganesh Raj has since joined Dubai Ports International, which had recently emerged the highest bidder for developing and operating an international container terminal at Cochin Port.

" P&O Ports have decided to cut out the costly CEO layer. Hence forth, there will be no CEO's in India. The General Managers at the three container terminals have been told to focus internally on production, performance and customer service. The rest of the work will be looked after from the Mumbai office," Mr Sarbh told Business Line.

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