Although East Africa cannot fully support Russia, it can provide Russia with certain help, which is a timely help for Russian government.
Next, Maxim and East Africa discussed the process of how to provide services to Russian navy. It was basically confirmed that East Africa would only provide Russia with some ports on the mainland and Lanfang Overseas Province.
"In West Coast, there are a total of six ports capable of providing services to Russian warships, including Cabinda, Luanda, Benguela, Port of Alexandria, Swakopmund, and Walvis Bay Port."
"East Africa can provide Russia with one of its ports as a temporary port of call for Russian navy. Among these ports, Luanda and Cabinda have the best conditions, especially in terms of material supply. It can meet all the needs of Russian navy, among which Luanda has the most favorable climate conditions. Russians may not be able to adapt to the tropical rainforest climate of Cabinda."
"Similarly, the ports in the south of West Coast are too dry, but the basic infrastructure is relatively complete. However, the supply of materials in Walvis Bay Port and Swakopmund is relatively tight. The two places are completely surrounded by deserts, lack fruit and vegetable supplies, and other materials are also relatively tight."
During First Five-Year Plan, East Africa West Coast accelerated development, especially these six port cities, which have been implemented in the infrastructure field and have railway and inland series connections, so they have the basic conditions to provide services for Russian Navy.
Seeing East Africans scolding Fang Qiu on the map, Maxim only had endless envy in his heart at this time. Russia has always been a country full of yearning for the ocean. Starting from Peter the Great, the core idea of Russia's territorial expansion was to obtain a good outlet to the sea. However, things went counterproductive. Even today, Russia's territory reaches an astonishing 20 million square kilometers, but it is still controlled by others in terms of oceans.
Looking at East Africa, to be honest, this land and sea layout in East Africa is what Russia wants to a certain extent. Of course, Maxim secretly thinks that Africa cannot be compared with Europe, the center of world civilization, so Russia's future is to expand towards Western Europe to solve the current dilemma.
"In general, we recommend that you choose Luanda as your port of call. This was originally the center of the Portuguese colonial period. After it fell into our hands, it has developed rapidly. All infrastructures are very complete, and it is the commercial and trade center on the west coast of Africa. Most of the goods in the world can be seen in Luanda. In Luanda, even some Russians do business here."
In West African Coast, except for East Africa, there are few well-developed countries or colonies. That is, the northernmost Morocco and the southernmost Cape Town are barely passable economically, but they are also far behind East Africa West Coast.
Therefore, it is entirely reasonable to say that the West Coast city in East Africa is the commercial and trade center of West African Coast, which has also led to Luanda attracting more and more businessmen from Africa, Europe, and North and South America to do business.
In the past, only some agricultural products could be exported here. After all, Angola's agricultural conditions are still good. As Portuguese's "bread basket", it has a long history of development. It is one of West African Coast's few colonies with a relatively high degree of agricultural development.
Under the governance of East Africa, the local industry has gradually developed since the 1990s. Entering the new century, it has become a key development area during the First Five-Year Plan period in East Africa. The current development of West Coast is beyond the imagination of the world.
The development of industry and agriculture has also made the Luanda region prosperous in commerce and trade, and can provide a richer variety of products. At the same time, transportation construction has made it increasingly closely connected with the interior of East Africa, and is rapidly narrowing the economic gap with the central and eastern regions, becoming the third pole of East African economy.
"Then choose Luanda!" Under East African government's introduction, Maxim also confirmed East African West Coast port, who Russian Navy temporarily borrowed.
"Don't worry, Ambassador Maxim. Your navy may have its own plans and arrangements. After all, the specific landing point must be considered comprehensively. Next, we will give a rough introduction to the situation in the East Coast port city. You will then provide feedback to the country and decide the final result."
Maxim readily accepted East African government's suggestion, mainly because he did not know much about the geography and urban development of East Africa, so East African government personnel had to make the introduction.
Although East Africa is currently developing rapidly, with the exception of Mombasa city and Dar es Salaam city, East African cities are not very well-known. In fact, this is the case in most countries, even in many economically developed countries. Many people may only know their capitals or the most economically developed cities.
"East Coast has far more ports to choose from than West Coast, and most of them have a long history of development and have no obvious shortcomings. They can basically provide Russian navy with relatively complete services. Among them, Mombasa Needless to say, E and Dar es Salaam city. Apart from these two ports, the most developed ones are Bella City and New Hamburg City. It's not bad to mark other ports on the map."
In Maxim's opinion, there is really nothing to choose from the East African East Coast port. It mainly depends on how the Russian navy department plans the navigation route.
So he said to Ernst, "Your Highness, I will send these messages to the country as soon as possible. I believe that our government will soon come up with an idea. At that time, I will come over to feed back our opinions to your country."
In addition to Dong West Coast, there is another city that has been identified but will no longer be discussed, and that is Pontianak City, the provincial capital of Lanfang Overseas Province.
For Russia, the location of Pontianak City is currently the most suitable except for Strait of Malacca, and after leaving East African mainland, Russian navy cannot rest from East African East Coast to Strait of Malacca, so the importance of Pontianak to Russian navy is not weaker than some ports of East African mainland.
In the previous life, there was no port like Pontianak in Nanyang region to provide convenience for Russian navy. It is impossible for the British-controlled Strait of Malacca and other ports to provide convenience for Russians provides services. Under the pressure of the British, the Dutch colony will most likely not be open to Russia. As for France, for various reasons, it has not provided convenience to Russia, so not surprisingly, Pontianak will definitely be Russian navy's temporary foothold.
As for whether this will give Russia an advantage in the next war, Ernst is not worried at all. After Pontianak, there is still a long distance to Northeast Asia. After arriving in Northeast Asia, Russian navy will completely become a rootless duck. At that time, Lushun Besieged or occupied by Japan, and the route to Vladivostok must also be controlled by Japan, so if Russian Second Fleet successfully reaches Northeast Asia, the situation will not improve.
The "as soon as possible" mentioned by Maxim is a bit long for East Africa. The wait has reached March this year, because Russia not only has to consider East African factors, but also the attitudes of other countries along the route, especially Germany and France. Otherwise, Russian navy may have difficulty even Baltic Sea wanting to leave.
There are two main channels for the Baltic Sea. One is the natural strait controlled by Northern Europe two countries, Denmark and Sweden. At this time, Norway has not yet become independent from Sweden, and Finland is also under the control of Russia, so Northern Europe only has two countries.
The second one is Germany's Kiel Canal. Kiel Canal was officially built and put into use as early as 1895. It has become the most important artificial waterway from the Baltic Sea to Atlantic Ocean.
Now many merchant ships from the Baltic Sea will choose the German Kiel Canal route to Atlantic Ocean. If Germany allows it, this is also the most suitable route for Russian Navy to go to the Far East waters.