A Chinese company, CCCC reportedly awarded the KSh375 billion JKIA upgrade tender
Kenya has reportedly awarded a Chinese firm a $2.9 billion (about Sh375 billion) contract to upgrade JKIA, according to Bloomberg.
Kenya has reportedly awarded a Chinese firm a $2.9 billion (about Sh375 billion) contract to upgrade JKIA, according to Bloomberg.
The company reportedly being considered to take over the planned Ksh375 billion expansion of Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) is China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), one of the world’s largest state-owned infrastructure firms.
CCCC was involved with the design and construction of two of the most important infrastructure projects in Kenya in the past ten years: the Mombasa-Nairobi standard gauge railway and the Nairobi-Naivasha railway extension.
The company has a huge portfolio in ports, railways and highways and major transportation hubs, making it a possible contender if Kenya decides to move forward with plans for the modernisation of JKIA after the Adani deal fell through. It could also expand China’s presence in Kenya’s infrastructure sector, where its contractors have been at the centre of delivering many flagship projects.
CCCC is the world’s largest port, road and bridge design and construction enterprise, the world’s largest dredging enterprise and the owner of the world’s largest engineering fleet. It has 33 large-scale subsidiaries and is present in 139 countries and regions.
The company has many flagship projects, such as the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, the Shanghai Yangshan Deepwater Port and China’s many high-speed railway networks.
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This follows a decision in November 2024 by President William Ruto to cancel the deal, which was to involve Adani Group spending billions of shillings on expanding and modernising the country’s busiest airport under a public-private partnership contract.
The cancellation came as the controversy over Gautam Adani and some of his associates over bribery and fraud charges was mounting in the United States.
The Adani Group has dismissed the charges, but the events sparked outrage among the public and further opposition to the JKIA project from politicians, aviation stakeholders, labour unions and civil society activists.
The lack of clarity in the procurement process and the length of the proposed concession had been raised as concerns by critics, along with a question about the effects of the concession on a strategic national asset.
President Ruto, in response, ordered government entities to immediately suspend the procurement of the airport expansion project with Adani and seek alternative investors to finance the project.
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