Category: Non-fiction
Rights: All rights available
Nothing moves unless someone figures out how to move it.
Mr Shashi Kiran Shetty arrived in Bombay from Bantwal, Karnataka, with no capital, no connections, and no roadmap but just an eye for opportunity. He entered the world of shipping and ports at the ground level, learning the business one shipment, one deal, one relationship at a time.
With limited capital but sharp instinct, Mr Shetty started a logistics business around the ports of Mumbai. What followed was a three-decade journey from the docks of Bombay to a global network spanning continents: Allcargo grew into a leader in less-than-container-load consolidation, expanding through strategic acquisitions, new business lines, and international markets.
Today, Mr Shetty’s businesses sit at the centre of something most of us never think about because behind every product you’ve ever bought, there’s a shipment, a route, and a decision someone made to move it, and this is the story of the man who built the invisible machinery that makes global trade possible, starting with nothing but an instinct for where the world was headed.
This book is for the people who dream of building something from scratch, tired of hearing only startup-unicorn stories and ready for a real one. It’s for the reader who loves a good rags-to-riches saga.
The authors: Shashi Kiran Shetty, Nikhil Inamdar