Mr Mukesh Oza
Mr. Mukesh Oza, a graduate in Economics started his career with the IMF / World Bank, before the shipping world lured him. He has over thirty years of experience in Containerised, Break Bulk and Bulk shipping. He started his career in Mumbai and moved to the Sharaf Group of the UAE, where he took long strides in his professional career and eventually rose to the Directorship on the Board of the Sharaf Group.
In the mid nineties when the Sharaf Group, realizing the potential of India wanted to expand their global presence and setup operations in India hand picked Mr. Oza for the assignment. In 1996 he landed in Mumbai, with a suitcase full of ambitions with bold and innovative ideas.
Mr. Oza’s perseverance has built the company’s Indian arm from strength to strength. Today in a little over a decade the Samsara Group, a member of the Sharaf Group network has more than fifty offices at all major ports and inland cities across the country.
The group under his guidance and able leadership today represents some of the most reputed global container /bulk and break bulk carriers and operators. The group today is also in the business of owning and operating private freight trains for EXIM and Domestic cargo, CFS’s and Inland Container Depots across India.