[1][2] The current chairman of the Payra Port Authority is Rear Admiral Masud Iqbal.
[5] In 2016 China Harbour Engineering Company and China State Construction Engineering had signed an agreement with the authority to improve the port.
[6] The deals were worth more than US$500 million and were signed in the Ministry of Shipping in Dhaka.
[7] The same year the port authority signed an agreement with Bangladesh Navy to build the approach road to the port.
[8] In December 2017 Jan De Nul started proceeding on a 550 million Euro dredging contract.