Nara Chandrababu Naidu, the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh inaugurated the pylon.

Navayuga Engineering Company Limited bagged the project to develop the port on a build-own-operate-transfer basis.

[3] After the YSR Congress party came into power in Andhra Pradesh state in 2019, the project was handed to RITES and was asked to submit a DPR for the same by December 2019.

[4] There is a proposal to develop a mega thermal power plant near Machilipatnam during 11th Five Year Plan.

[5] In May 2023, the former Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy launched the work on the Rs 5,156 crore Machilipatnam Port in the Krishna district by unveiling a pylon and offering special prayers on the beach.