{"id":182467,"date":"2026-04-11T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/182467\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:29:09","slug":"does-this-kenyan-rail-project-provide-a-model-for-chinese-and-western-firms-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/182467\/","title":{"rendered":"Does this Kenyan rail project provide a model for Chinese and Western firms in Africa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Yet the Nairobi Railway City project stands as a rare exception. It combines British financing with Chinese construction and labour to build a major new public transport hub in the Kenyan capital.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the heart of the project is the proposed new Central station and a 172-hectare (425-acre) district that includes new businesses, homes and an industrial zone.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The plan is designed to plug into the city\u2019s existing and future transport networks and was modelled on the King\u2019s Cross multimodal transport hub in London.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Kenyan government and Kenya Railways are leading the procurement process, with Britain providing technical advice and exploring financing through UK Export Finance (UKEF).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Under this arrangement, architects AtkinsRealis handled the design, but the construction will be carried out by Chinese contractors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yet the Nairobi Railway City project stands as a rare exception. It combines British financing with Chinese construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,1151,93847,93849,85815,85814,93846,14743,15436,14272,93848,57275,93845,387],"class_list":["post-182467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa","tag-africa","tag-angola","tag-atkinsrealis","tag-china-civil-engineering-construction-corporation","tag-china-communications-construction-company","tag-china-road-and-bridge-corporation","tag-crceg-covec-consortium","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-institute-of-development-studies","tag-kenya-railways","tag-kings-cross","tag-lobito-corridor","tag-mota-engil","tag-nairobi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116385609629157129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}