Sachin Bhanushali, President, Gateway-Rail, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Gateway Rail Freight Ltd with effect from December 1, 2014. Bhanushali will continue to report to Prem Kishan Gupta, Chairman and Managing Director, Gateway-Rail. GRFL is a subsidiary of Gateway Distriparks Limited (GDL).

Bhanushali joined Gateway-Rail in January 2007. Earlier, he was with Indian Railways and Container Corporation of India Limited (Concor).

Gateway Rail Freight Ltd has emerged as a leading rail logistics service provider in containerised cargo segment. Gateway Rail is one of the 11 Private Container Train Operators of India who have been given permission to operate container trains over the entire Indian Railways network.

Gateway Rail operates 21 train-sets from its three leading terminals in North India at Garhi Harsaru, Ludhiana and Faridabad and the west coast ports. It has plans to build terminals in Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Bengaluru, Jaipur and Jodhpur to provide pan-India service, added the release.