[4] The development works include capital dredging of the port, the inauguration of eight ships, the first terminal, and the construction of a six-lane approach road and a bridge The Payra Port Authority (PPA) signed a deal with Belgium-based dredging company Jan De Nul (JDN) for capital and maintenance dredging of 75 kilometre long main channel of the under construction Payra seaport.

Three Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers will be deployed to the Rabnabad Channel of Payra Port to fulfil the dredging requirements of the coming years.

[5][6] Payra port was originally planned as China's bid for another deep seaport in its String of Pearls strategy.

The construction of the port, which was being financed on a public-private partnership (PPP) platform, was therefore granted to a Chinese company.

[7] An MoU was signed with Jan De Nul Group in 2016 to dredge the Ramnabad canal.