Chinese companies have won several large-scale projects initiated by the Kenya National Highways Agency and funded by banks and the Kenyan government. China Wuyi, an overseas subsidiary of the state-owned Fujian Construction Engineering Group, is building James Gichuru Road-Rironi northwest of Nairobi at a cost of $143 million. This will include 26 kilometers of dual carriageway and 17 kilometers of set lines. A video of the work in progress can be seen here. Numerous other projects are underway on the A1, the main artery in the west of the country, which runs from Tanzania in the south to South Sudan in the north.

China Railway Fifth Bureau, a subsidiary of China Railway Group, is upgrading the Nakodok and Lodwar sections in the northwest, and another subsidiary, China Railway Tenth Bureau, is adding lanes on the A1 highway in the southwest, near the city of Kisumu. China Engineering Corporation is upgrading the A140km section between Lokichar and Loichangamatak towns; China Urban Construction Group Third Engineering Bureau is doing the same for the 80km section between Lokitaung and Lodwar; The roads near Iraq are being modernized. Finally, contractors owned by the Jiangxi provincial government are improving the A1 section between Kakamega and Webuye. Keywords: engineering news, engineering practice

China Railway 21st Bureau Group is handling the $44 million Machakos scheme southeast of Nairobi. Many of these companies have been active in Kenya for over a decade, and the East African newspaper noted that Chinese companies are now leading the Kenyan infrastructure market. For example, China's Wuyi had 18 road projects under construction in 2013, while Jiangxi China Coal won an important proposal to build the Kenyan section of the transport corridor between Mombasa and Addis Ababa as early as 2009.Editor/XingWentao