The shipbuilding industry in East Africa began in the seventies, and its current development scale is quite decent. Of course, East Africa has somewhat focused primarily on military shipbuilding in this field, with civilian shipbuilding being notably lesser in proportion.
In East Africa, the proportion of imported civilian vessels exceeds sixty percent, including imports from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, and even the Netherlands and Italy.
A significant reason for the high proportion of imports is the inherent deficiencies in the shipbuilding industry at that time. The main East African ports were located along the coasts of what was formerly Tanzania and Kenya, while Mozambique and Angola were not yet part of East Africa's territory.
