Tanzania Report 2023 - 2024 (Big Boat, Small Engine)

2024-02-02

We went to Tanzania to meet with a customer who regularly purchases used boats and engines from us.

Our customer is based in Zanzibar and the capital Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
Their company has a variety of businesses including shipbuilding, fishing, marine transportation, and car import.

When visited the shipyard and the port, we saw many Japanese-made engines running on big boats with small engines (Big Boat, Small Engine).
I think we need to work hard on exports to fit bigger engines on their dhow boat which is made of heavy wood.

According to the internet, the land area of Tanzania is about 2.5 times that of Japan, and the total population is 62 million, about half of Japan's.
The average age is 18 years old (as of 2022), and the population continues to grow by about 1.8 million people (about 3%) every year.
Japan's population growth rate at the peak of the first baby boom during postwar reconstruction was 3% (1946, Japanese population 76 million).
As a country, Tanzania is currently in its youth.

Since the relationship we met in Tanzania, we invited the customer to Japan in the fall of 2023 to tour Kanto and Kyushu.
We were able to introduce them to several of our business partners and deepen our friendships.
It was a great opportunity to learn more about each other's home countries.

We believe that we can build cooperative relations with a spirit of learning together and keep taking on challenges in Tanzania and Japan.