Turkish Firm in Talks With Kenya to Electrify China-Run Railway

Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi Holdings AS is in talks with Kenya to electrify the East African nation’s Chinese-built railway, enabling it to seamlessly link with a line under construction in neighboring Uganda.

The upgrade would make the network compatible with the €2.7 billion ($3.2 billion) electric railway the Istanbul-based firm is building from Kenya’s border to Uganda’s capital, Kampala, Yapi Merkezi Vice Chairman Erdem Arıoğlu said in an interview in Nairobi Thursday.