Company overview
- Sector
- Logistics, Supply Chain & Real Estate
- Sub-sector
- Logistics & Supply Chain
- Mandate (derived)
- Customer Support & Ops
- Parent headquarters
- Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $28,200,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 12,409
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Mumbai
- Chennai
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .GIS
- .NET
- 24-7 Media
- 3M 360 Encompass - Health Analytics Suite
- 8x8
- AI
- AMD Xilinx
- ASP.NET
- AWS Application Load Balancer
- Act!
- Adform
- Akamai
- Akamai CDN Solutions
- AlienVault USM (from AT&T Cybersecurity)
- Alteryx
Public leadership
Capt Javadekar
Senior Vice President (All India Operations)
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. was founded in 1970 in Naples, Italy by Captain Gianluigi Aponte and his wife Rafaela Aponte-Diamant; headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland since 1978. It remains a privately-held, family-controlled shipping and logistics group (Aponte-Diamant family), with founder's children Diego Aponte (Group President) and Alexa Aponte Vago (Group CFO) leading day-to-day operations. As a private company MSC does not publish standardized global financials; third-party headcount/revenue estimates vary widely.
- India launch
- 2001
- Maturity
- Captive Support Center +IT/Technology
India presence is two distinct legal entities: (1) MSC Agency (India) Pvt Ltd, Mumbai - a country shipping/freight-forwarding agency handling cargo, customs brokerage and transport-agency activities, i.e. core commercial operations; and (2) MSC Technology (India) Pvt Ltd, Chennai - a modest-scale IT captive (paid-up capital ~₹7.5 crore) overseen by MSC's Group CIO. Resembles a captive IT/technology support center layered onto an established country commercial agency, rather than a full-stack multi-function GCC.
Location rationale
Inferred from corporate registry data: Mumbai hosts MSC's long-standing India shipping-agency and commercial hub, consistent with Mumbai/JNPT's role as India's principal container-shipping gateway; Chennai hosts the group's IT/technology captive (MSC Technology India, formerly iBOX Technology), consistent with Chennai's established IT/ITeS talent base.
Timeline
- 2001
MSC Agency (India) Private Limited incorporated in Mumbai (CIN U63090MH2001PTC133288) - MSC's principal India shipping-agency entity, registered at MSC House, Andheri Kurla Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai.
- 2007
iBOX Technology Private Limited incorporated in Chennai (Sept 13, 2007; CIN U72900TN2007PTC064734), registered for computer-related/IT services; later renamed MSC Technology (India) Private Limited, becoming MSC's India technology captive.
- 2016
Andre Simha, MSC Group's Chief Information Officer, appointed director of MSC Technology (India) Private Limited (Sept 23, 2016), tying the Chennai entity into MSC's global IT/technology organization.
- 2023
Fabio Catassi appointed director of MSC Technology (India) Private Limited (April 18, 2023).
Real estate
Mumbai: MSC House, Andheri-Kurla Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai, Maharashtra 400059 (registered office of MSC Agency (India) Pvt Ltd). Chennai: One Indiabulls Park, Tower B, 11th Floor, Plot No. 14, 3rd Main Road, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600058 (registered office of MSC Technology (India) Pvt Ltd).
Hiring signal
- Open roles
- Not disclosed
- As of
- 2026-08-26
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.