The ticket cost for one-way journey will be ৳2,000 without any discount or concession, more than three times higher than a conventional seat on current inter-city trains.

According to this agreement, feasibility and design work will be completed in December 2019 at a cost of Tk102.10 crore.

[1][5] It is expected to reduce travel time to between 55 and 73 minutes between Dhaka and Chittagong while current inter-city trains has to spend around six hours of travel time are needed to cover the distance by the current 321 km (199 mi) metre-gauge railways.

[a] 464.2 hectares (4.642 km2) of land will be needed to be acquired by Bangladesh Railway to implement the project.

[1] Chinese companies and the World Bank have shown interest in providing funding for the project through public–private partnership and build-own-operate models.