April 14, 1911.
Rhein City.
The agreement with the United Kingdom has greatly affected the industrial development plans originally set by the East African Government, especially impacting the shipbuilding industry and related sectors the most.
The proportion of naval vessels in the total national fleet is not small in any country. Take the United Kingdom, for example, where its civilian fleet totals nearly twenty million tons, while the naval fleet totals a staggering two million tons, making the naval vessels about one-tenth of the civilian fleet.
This is even more pronounced in other countries. Germany's civilian fleet totals only a few million tons, while the German Navy totals close to a million tons, a higher ratio than the United Kingdom. Other major powers such as the United States, France, East Africa, and Japan are similar.
