- SAMMA: Société d’acconage et de manutention en mauritanie is a maritime agency, stevedoring, handling & customs clearance company;
- It was created on May 26,1960 in response to the needs of SNIM, the mother iron ore company in Nouadhibou;
- SAMMA’s headquarters are in Nouadhibou & it has a branch in Nouakchott;
- SAMMA has been the sole responsible for unloading all of Snim’s mining & rail equipment in Nouadhibou since 1960;
- At Nouakchott SAMMA is the agent of Baco - liner that calls Nouakchott every fortnight and Nouadhibou once a month straight from
Europe with no transhipments ;