Manager (COMAD)

Question: Can you give us a brief history of your company?

Answer: Thank you. When the French came to Djibouti they needed shipping services. It was first a shipping company and was called Compagnie Maritime de l’Afrique Orientale; a French company. That company was serving the ships that were coming through Djibouti to Indochina and Asia. There was no port of course. In the 1950s they changed the name to Compagnie Maritime Auxiliaire d’Outre Mer, which was also a French company. That ...