About
Where routes converge.
Ekutano means meeting point in Swahili. Where routes converge. Where decisions get made. Where operations either hold together or they don't. That's where we work.
We are a logistics and operations consultancy built specifically for businesses operating in Madagascar and East Africa. Not a generalist firm with a regional desk — a specialist practice built from the ground up for the specific conditions of this market.
The founder
Dominique Zuffour
Founder & Principal Advisor
Twenty-five years. Seven continents. The corridors others avoid.
Dominique's career was built in the markets where infrastructure is thin, regulation shifts without notice, and relationships carry more weight than contracts. Emerging trade lanes across Africa. Production hubs in Asia. European buyers with zero tolerance for delay. Frontier markets that don't appear on standard trade maps.
That environment produces a specific kind of operator — one who solves problems before they have names.
Air charters. Customs clearance. Port operations. Cross-border freight. A decade inside global textile supply chains, where precision isn't a differentiator — it's the baseline.
What Dominique brings to Ekutano is the combination that's genuinely hard to find: global fluency, deep regional mastery, and the pattern recognition that only comes from twenty-five years of operating where standard solutions don't apply.
How we work
We embed early. We don't arrive after the contract is signed and the first shipment is delayed. We come in at the decision level — when the choice of supplier, entry route, or financial instrument is still open. That's where the leverage is.
We work in both English and French. We operate across Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Kenya. We know these routes the way you learn a road by driving it in the dark — not from a map, but from experience.
How we engage
Every mandate is specific. The entry point is always the same.
We don't work from a fixed menu. Every engagement is sized to the problem. But there is a clear structure — from a first written assessment to a specialist embedded inside your team.
Diagnostic Brief
A written assessment of your logistics setup, cost structure, and key risk points. Delivered in 10 business days. Site visit included where the complexity warrants it.
Project Mandate
Fixed scope. Defined deliverables. Clear timeline. Structured around a specific problem — a corridor, a cost centre, a market entry, or a full process rebuild.
Operations Retainer
Monthly access to Ekutano's advisory, monitoring, and execution support. We stay in the picture as your operation evolves — catching issues before they become incidents.
Embedded Specialist
One of our specialists sits inside your operations team, on an open-ended basis. Senior level. Available from two days per week. Operational from day one.
Ready to start
Commission a Brief.
Tell us where you're operating and what isn't working. We'll deliver a written assessment — clear-eyed on your logistics situation, cost drivers, and priority fixes. Site visit if the complexity calls for it.