We began the day returning to Startimes
Media to collect the form we left yesterday. Though it was partially
filled out, the information was not as detailed as we'd hoped. We are
going to try and get a meeting set up with the head of marketing next
week once she returns from Kisumu. The office was super busy, as it
was yesterday, so hopefully we will be able to connect with someone
who can provide additional information. The energy within the office
is very high, leading us to believe there is more under the surface.
After Startimes, we headed down into
the Industrial Area in search of Sinohydro. We'd been told it was
located near the Kenya Pipeline Company's (KPC) plaza so we started
there. We discovered that China Petroleum Pipeline Co. (CPP) did work
with KPC but Sinohydro was nowhere to be found. This company is
proving to be quite elusive! Unfortunately, no one from CPP was in
today, however all of the staff at KPC were extremely helpful and
gave us several contacts at other Chinese firms. They even set up a
meeting for us with the CPP headquarters in Westlands for tomorrow
afternoon! For a moment we wished our research was on Kenyan oil
because the staff was so jovial.
In the afternoon we has a meeting with
Jimmy from COVEC. Again, he was very helpful in answering our
questions and even put us in contact with one of his professors in
China that is doing similar research. Also, he advised us that we
should be asking the construction companies if they are DB, DBB, CM,
BOT, or BT, referring to the type of projects they work
on—design/build, design/bid/build, construction management, etc..
Since we are nerds and love acronyms, this realization sent us
spiraling deeper into the websites of firms we already contacts to
see if we could identify the projects :)
Today was slightly slower than
yesterday but we are making progress, pole pole (slowly slowly).
Tomorrow we have a meeting with China CAMCE Engineering Corp. and
CPP. Yay!
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