NAIROBI (AFP) — A Chinese engineering firm has won a contract to renovate an airport in western Kenya at the cost of three billion shillings (49.2 million dollars), a Kenyan official said on Monday.
The China National Overseas Engineering Corporation (COVEC) will start renovating the airport in the western city of Kisumu next month, said a Kenya Airports Authority official.
The work includes lengthening the current two-kilometre (1.24-mile) runways and building a new terminal -- updating constructions from the 1970s -- to accomodate large aircrafts, the official added.
Many local airlines have suspended operations to Kisumu airport in recent years because of its poor state.
Kenya is increasingly granting contracts to Chinese firms as the two nations deepen their ties.
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