Hello, everyone.

This is Takayuki Kondo.

 

I went on a business trip few month ago.

 

It was the first time to visit Tanzania for me.

Tanzania is located in Eastern Africa. The land area is 2.5 times bigger than Japan area. The population is 52 million, 70% under 30 years old. The International community is looking at Tanzania as a potential economic motor development because of its large population of young generations.

 

The sense of values is totally different between Tanzania and Japan.

I had to wait for 1 hour to get my visa when I arrived at the airport. Time pass very slowly in Tanzania so I needed longer time than in Japan for everything.

 

Referring the traffic situation, police has the role of “traffic signal” except in few parts of the highway. Because of that, the traffic jam was horrible at any time. During the long stoppages, many street vendors came to us and tried to sell us newspapers, drinks, ornaments, etc. Some of them wiped the outer glass of the car and demanded payment for that, even though we didn’t ask for that.

 

About the 90% of the cars I could see, were Toyota ones. Many of those car models are not so popular in Japan so that I felt that it is necessary to get the market information in situ, as I was doing.

 

In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), I went on a business trip to “Kaiho Middle East” (KME), our branch in this country.

In KME, we are running regularly engines auctions since December 2014. We have held already 59 auctions.

 

In February, some of the members of the “RUM alliance” (our President is the representative of this alliance that is a nonprofit-organization) also took part on this tour to KME. The members who visited the place by the first time were surprised about the big quantity of cars and customers and felt proud of the Japanese industrial power. I am convinced that unifying companies on the same sector we will become stronger.

 

For me, it was the third business trip to KME. I am expecting a big success of this system in a near future, because we may see that the members that take part on those auctions, as well as the members online, are increasing and also rising the purchasing prices.

 

To grow as a big auction place, it is important to cooperate with companies of the same business and also from different industrial sectors. I feel that there are so many future possibilities.