Secondly, Mombasa's current business was more important than Dar es Salaam city's. After all, it was a bridgehead where East Africa and Eurasia met, so many foreign trade operations and exchange centers had been established in Mombasa.
Now, as the European War continued, much of the business that had originally been in the hands of the European powers naturally passed into East African hands. This had made Mombasa the most important information hub on the East African East Coast.
Thanks to advances in East African communications technology and the growth of the national telecommunications industry, telegrams and telephones had become widespread. Orders placed in Mombasa could swiftly be sent throughout East Africa, without necessarily having to be completed in a particular city.
Thus, besides its large number of exchanges and communication centers, Mombasa also housed branches established by many major East African enterprises, or simply served as the location of their headquarters.
Therefore, in order not to disrupt Mombasa's current state, the East African government, after careful consideration, had still chosen to hold the exhibition in the Dar es Salaam city cluster.
To a certain extent, this also showed Dar es Salaam city's relative decline in status among East African cities. This was easy enough to understand: after the rise of port cities such as Beira, Maputo, New Hamburg Port, and Pemba along the East Coast, they were bound to create competition for Dar es Salaam city.
After all, Dar es Salaam city was not Shanghai, commanding the headwaters of the Yangtze River, that golden waterway. And in rail and road transport, those rising East African stars were not inferior to Dar es Salaam city in the slightest.
Mombasa, however, was different. It could be said that it had no competitors at all. To this day, the dividends of the