Location
Bangladesh / Asia Pacific
Project record
Bangladesh Bay Terminal marine infrastructure
Chittagong Port Authority is developing the common marine infrastructure for Bay Terminal with World Bank financing. The public design baseline combines a 6-kilometre offshore breakwater, dredging for a 6.6-kilometre access route, port basin and entrance works, navigation aids and VTMS integration. The latest World Bank implementation report says the financing is effective and key studies are nearing completion, but physical works have not commenced.
Segment
Port infrastructure
Status
IDA financing effective since 8 December 2025; marine studies are nearing completion, but works and the terminal-operator RFP have not started / Confirmed
Last checked
19 July 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Port infrastructure is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
Subject index
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), Government of Bangladesh
- Delivery parties
- No marine works contractor identified in reviewed official sources, Transaction adviser engaged for the separate terminal-operator PPP
- Contract route
- IDA-financed international competitive procurement using World Bank documents and rated criteria. The 2024 procurement strategy groups breakwater construction and capital dredging in a preliminary US$827 million line, but says the scope is likely to be split after market survey and PPSD finalisation. A separate PPP route will recruit international terminal operator(s).
- Execution window
- World Bank financing closes on 30 June 2031; package tender, award, mobilisation and construction dates remain unconfirmed
- Works package
- A 6 km rubble-mound breakwater on the offshore sandbar, dredging of a 5 km basin reach and roughly 1.6 km entrance reach for a 6.6 km access route, an expected capital-dredging volume close to 30 million m3, navigation aids and VTMS updates
- Marine interfaces
- Offshore breakwater design, sandbar stabilisation, a live approach to Chattogram, basin and entrance-channel dredging, sediment monitoring, navigation systems and the handover boundary between publicly funded common marine works and privately developed container terminals
- Commercial evidence boundary
- The World Bank's US$650 million financing is a project envelope, not a marine-works award. The US$827 million figure is a preliminary procurement-plan estimate for breakwater and capital dredging, the US$5 million line is for navigation aids and VTMS, and the US$830 million indicator is a future private-investment target for at least one terminal. None is a signed construction contract.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogLatest implementation report kept physical works at pre-start
The World Bank recorded effective financing and studies nearing completion, while marine works remained pre-start and the terminal PPP RFP awaited feasibility and transaction-structure approval.
SourceIDA financing became effective
The three IDA credits moved from signature to effective status. Effectiveness released the financing framework but did not award or start a marine-works contract.
SourceWorld Bank approved the Bay Terminal financing
Approval established the US$650 million project envelope and common marine-infrastructure objective, including the breakwater and channel works. It was not a construction award.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- Completion and approval of marine feasibility, detailed design and PPSD
- Final split between breakwater, capital dredging and initial maintenance dredging
- Prequalification and rated-criteria tender documents for each marine package
- Design depth, dredge prism, measured quantity and sediment-management route
- Breakwater foundation, sandbar stabilisation and scour-protection requirements
- Navigation aids, VTMS integration and live-traffic controls
- Contract awards, notice to proceed and identifiable mobilisation
- Baseline and post-dredge hydrography, breakwater acceptance and navigation release
- Interface agreement with the future private terminal operator
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 6
- Implementation Status and Results Report for Bay Terminal Marine Infrastructure Development Project World Bank, 16 January 2026
- Project Appraisal Document and procurement strategy World Bank, 7 June 2024
- World Bank helps Bangladesh develop Bay Terminal World Bank, 28 June 2024
- World Bank and Bangladesh sign financing package World Bank, 23 April 2025
- Revised Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for Bay Terminal Chittagong Port Authority / World Bank, January 2024
- Bay Terminal project reports and safeguard documents Chittagong Port Authority, Current page reviewed 19 July 2026