I. Jeyakumar, an Indian Railway traffic service officer of the 1997 batch, took over as the deputy chairman of the Chennai Port Trust (ChPT), on Wednesday.
Earlier, he had served as deputy chairman at the Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT), and was also holding additional charge of chairman-cum-managing director of Central Inland Water Transport Corporation of India Limited and Hugli Dock & Port Engineers Limited.
He has done a BSc. Agriculture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University and holds an MBA from Bharathidasan University.