Therefore, the development of submarine technology in East Africa has been relatively independent from the start, whereas the development of surface ships is quite the opposite, with East Africa always being the chasing party.
It was only in recent years that East Africa's shipbuilding industry framework has begun to shed its dependency on Europe, primarily owing to substantial investment in the shipbuilding industry in the '90s.
In the '90s, after the South African war, East Africa obtained several important ports in the West Coast Angola region, which enabled the two-ocean strategy to be fully established. Correspondingly, the East Africa Central Government constructed numerous shipbuilding enterprises on both the West Coast and East Coast, forming an independent shipbuilding industry structure. Coupled with the accumulation over six, seven, and eight decades, spanning more than twenty years, East Africa's shipbuilding industry has become relatively mature.
