Promoted by Newsprint Trading & Sales Corporation (NTSC), Windmill International Pvt Ltd and Parameswara Holdings Ltd as an Indo-Singapore joint venture, GDL was incorporated in 1994 to conduct the business of General and Bonded Warehousing, handling and clearing of sea borne Exim Cargo in containerised form at Navi Mumbai. Over time, GDL had ventured into other activities in the logistics industry as well. Gateway Distriparks Limited is the only logistics facilitator in the whole of India with three verticals which are synergetic and capable of being interlinked – Container Freight Stations (CFS), Inland Container Depots (ICD) with rail movement of containers to major maritime ports, and Cold Chain Storage and Logistics.