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Region: Geopolity

Tumolian Times reports
Government naval investments announced.

The ministry of defense and the ministry of transport have come to an agreement to make substantial investments in the southern harbours of Durban and Port Elizabeth. The two harbours are now mostly used as civilian export purposes but in the harbour of Durban a new bay will be built for military purposes. It is an open secret among the Tumolian people that the current state of the Tumolian navy is worse than it was 30 years ago. To stimulate naval renewment the harbour of Durban will be reclassified as a primary military Naval forward base. The harbour will be used to store and repair both international naval vessels as well as Foreign Frigates. The secondary purpose of the harbour will remain export and import transport, put in agreement with the Transport ministry around 23% of the trade that now flows through Durban will be expected to reroute to neighbouring harbours. the Central Bureau of Statistics has calculated that this will help the local economies of these harbours. The government expects that this will create a trickle-down effect and will help local investments and trade.

The announced agreement is expected to be one of many in a recent trend of naval and trade investments following years of neglect by the government in Cape Town. Naval trade remains one of the biggest parts of the Tumolian economy. It is expected that of the towns surrounding the three biggest harbours of Tumolia around 69% of the population is in one way or another employed by the harbours. It is expected that further investments will be targeted at the Cape Town and Mozambique regions

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