The development of Pandu port as an inland shipping hub in the Northeast is being initiated, as the government has approved a project for developing National Waterway (NW)-2 entailing an investment of Rs 4.61 billion during 2020-21 to 2024-25. Among other things, the project involves the setting up of a ship repair facility at Pandu entailing an investment of Rs 0.72 billion. This would be beneficial as the north-eastern region does not have any vessel repair facility with dry docking. At present, the vessels in the region are taken to Kolkata through Bangladesh for dry dock repair. The government had established a multimodal river port at Pandu. A master plan was prepared for phased development of the terminal at Pandu. A low-level jetty entailing an investment of Rs .04 billion was made operational in 2009. During 2014-15, a high-level jetty entailing an investment of Rs 0.43 billion was also made operational with a mechanical handling facility including containers.