Port clerk Fernand Boddaert 50 years on the job at FIEGE

Five name changes Boddaert experienced in the half-century he spent at logistician Fiege. “When I started in the office there in 1967, the company was still called Goth. They were celebrating their centenary when I had just come on board.” Boddaert had ended up in the maritime sector by chance. The chief deckhand at Goth was a customer in Boddaert’s grandfather’s barbershop, and that’s how the young Fernand learned that Goth was still looking for people. “Without specific prior training, by the way. Specialised courses at school did not exist for that profession,” Boddaert recalls.