March 2, 1894.
Kisumu city.
"Today, we counted a total of fourteen automobiles, along with a large quantity of cargo, mainly industrial products. This entire batch will be sent to Kima City, then exported to the Abyssinian Empire."
At Kisumu Train Station, brand-new automobiles manufactured by the Mombasa Automobile Factory had arrived in Kisumu city yesterday. Mombasa was currently the only city in the Northern Industrial Belt capable of manufacturing complete vehicles.
Kisumu, Nairobi, and other Northern Industrial Belt cities were responsible only for producing certain automobile parts, which were then transported by rail to Mombasa for assembly.
East Africa's automobile industry had currently formed five centers: Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Harare, and Bulawayo. In addition, after Ernst's last inspection, New Frankfurt City's automobile industry had been approved as a project and might become East Africa's sixth automobile-producing city in the future.
Including upstream and downstream industries, a total of seventy-eight East African cities and regions were involved, facilitating the unification of the domestic large market, lowering production costs, and strengthening East Africa's automobile industry.
Among the several automobile production bases, the automobile industry in East Africa's inland regions had production capacity markedly stronger than that of the coastal regions, and it gave priority to meeting the construction and development needs of the inland regions.
This was one advantage of placing high-end industries in inland regions. Even if technology and management models spilled outward, they would first spread toward East Africa's peripheral areas. By the time they filtered through to other countries and regions around the world, East Africa's interior would already have completed another round of product replacement and technological upgrades.
Of course, coastal Mombasa and Dar es Salaam were currently developing well due to their overall strength. But as competitors increased in the future, their advantages would