TotalEnergies, Alstom Sign Deals During Macron’s Kazakhstan Trip

  • Accords are for wind farm, possible electric rail investment
  • Macron is on Central Asia tour that also includes Uzbekistan

Fabienne Demol, left, signs a strategic investment contract with Nurlan Zhakupov in Astana on Nov. 1.

Photographer: Ludovic Marin/Getty Images
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TotalEnergies SE signed a deal to help develop a wind farm in Kazakhstan and Alstom SA reached one on potentially manufacturing electric trains, as President Emmanuel Macron concluded a visit to the nation before heading to neighboring Uzbekistan on Thursday.

Additional agreements included setting up a branch of France’s sustainable development agency, French language activities and geological research, according to a statement Wednesday from the government in Paris. Macron and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev are meeting in Astana.