He was senior general manager of Container Corporation of India, Chennai, before assuming his new charge.
R P S Kahlon lost his job as chairman of KoPT after he was arrested on alleged graft charges on March 9 from a hotel in the city.
He had allegedly received bribe from a private firm that handles containers at Kolkata Dock System (KDS).
M T Krishna Babu, the chairman of Visakhapatnam Port Trust, has taken over as the new chairman of KoPT as an additional charge.