Gujarat Ports Infrastructure Company has appointed Madhvendra Singh as the first CEO of the Gujarat Maritime Cluster. His appointment at the helm of GMC, and his knowledge and experience, shall aid Gujarat in converting itself into a global hub for international maritime services by bringing all the relevant stakeholders together by targeting to match and further define the global best practices in the maritime and shipping industry, thus helping in achieving effectiveness and efficiency across all spectrum of the services which shall form an integral part of the cluster.

It is the first commercial maritime cluster of its kind in the country aimed at creating a hub for maritime services of international standards. Gujarat Maritime Board established GMC through its subsidiary, Gujarat Ports Infrastructure Company,give impetus to the review of the state and nation's maritime sector by developing an integrated ecosystem of soft services related to the global maritime and shipping industry in accordance with the concept of "the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the individual companies".

The cluster plans to host a wide range of maritime, shipping and logistics service providers at GIFT City in Gandhinagar. It is currently the first and only maritime cluster in India. In addition to serving as a vital platform that enables regional maritime companies to put forward their views and interests, one of the biggest strengths of Gujarat Maritime Cluster is that it is the Industry players, government, academia (Gujarat Maritime University) and the Alternate Dispute Resolution Centre, enabling synergistic collaboration and accelerating value creation in the maritime sector. The cluster has the unique advantage of leveraging the regulatory flexibility provided by the country's first International Finance Services Centre (IFSC).