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The flag of the Comanav shipping company (ashariqa almagrebia
almilaha) is white with a red border and in the white the national
star of Maroc in green.
José Luís Cepero (Abderrahman), 25 Oct 2001
The logo includes this flag.
Jorge Candeias, 08 Jan 1998
The English version of the Arabic name given would be "Moroccan
Navigation Company." I would assume Comanav is the French acronym for
the same name.
Joe McMillan, 25 Oct 2001
Compagnie Marocaine de Navigation,
the national commercial maritime company.
Adil Sabihi, 30 Sep 1998
The company was founded as the Compagnie Franco-Chérifienne de
Navigation (CFCN) in 1946. The epithet "chérifien" refers to the Arab
word "charif", the title given to a Moslim prince descending from
Muhamat by Ali and Fatima. Since the current Moroccan dynasty is cherifian,
the Kingdom of Morocco is often nicknamed in French "the Cherifian Kingdom",
and "chérifien" is sometimes used as a synonym of "marocain". In 1959, the
company was renamed Comanav. In 1999, the Comanav owned 14 ships: 2 car
ferries, 2 polythermic ships, 5 container carriers and 5 roll-on/roll-off.
The ferry lines operate between Morocco (Tangiers, Nador) and France
(Sète), Spain (Algeciras, Almería), and Italy (Genoa).
Ivan Sache, 02 Nov 2002
Other sites:
Comarit Compagnie Maritime Maroco-Norvégienne, based in Casablanca;
a branch of Comarit España S.L., whose flag is
simlar: Yellow rectangular flag, with a thin vertical blue stripe skewed to
the hoist and a blue star in upper fly. (These flags are rather similar in
design to the house flag of Fred Olsen S.A.,
another Spanish outfit of a Norwegian company.)
Ivan Sache, 02 Nov 2002
Van Uden is based in Rotterdam;
Atlas is a sister company of Marbar and based in Casablanca.
Jarig Bakker, 05 Oct 2002
At the website http://www.abacus-shipping.ch/vacs.htm,
on the right side of the screen, the house flags
of Atlas, based in Morroco.
Dov Gutterman, 09 Feb 1999
Well, I had a hard time determining which are
the Moroccan flags there: Anyway, I found 3 different
designs:
Jorge Candeias, 16 Feb 1999
Dark blue with a white lozenge centered and a dark
blue "U" inside. The difference is in the "U": this has
a “standard” seriffed "U".
Jorge Candeias, 16 Feb 1999
This is totally different: a black - yellow - red - yellow
- green horizontally striped flag with the red stripe much
wider than the others and containing an "A" capital in white
and in a square shape.
Jorge Candeias, 16 Feb 1999
Dark blue with a white lozenge centered and a dark
blue "U" inside. The difference is in the "U": this has
little “horns” below, making is look a bit hand-drawn.
Jorge Candeias, 16 Feb 1999