Tuesday, March 15, 2016

SNAP SHOTS FROM BANGLADESH?.. ER MAKE THAT PLATYPUS

Readers, I took a little trip down to Platypus Marine today, which the sales and marketing assistant Brad Hale  gave me the nickel tour of the facilities here is what my camera captured...


Picture of me taken by Hale, in front of part of a fishing boat they are currently working on. Inside a building which isn't really suited for the work they are working in. 

Brad Hale, who was nice enough to show me around the complex.


Platypus had to work on a component of a Trident Nuclear Submarine in mud! 



The pleasure yachts, and fishing boats costing millions having to be worked on outside, instead if inside because there isn't enough space. Plus, admits in a plain of mud. The whole area should be asphalted 



Some workers working on a barge have to do their work in what I call these huts which are like big tents, some buildings in the yard are more like garage size shops for the workers to work in.




Another vessel being worked in what I would call big garage like structure, which isn't really ideal for painting purposes, you can't paint cold steel I was told. The area I was shown didn't have any indoor heating.



This area is looking out from a structure that housed a Israeli navy vessel they were working on under a tarp, inside one of these out buildings.

What they need readers is another large complex like their commander building which is the big blue building which is 200’ x 160’ feet of space. 

And get out of the mud soup they find themselves in....



And don't forget their restroom facilities folks...



  
Mens and Women facilities which weren't really up to ADA standards

Plus...the famed porta pottys


More shots of muck and mire conditions these people are being asked by the Port to lease out...


One of the main entrances to the main commander building....

The conditions these people have to use to conduct their business, trade, and work in is an embarrassment, I kept saying unbelievable while I was being shown around. If the Port wants to continue playing land lord they need to act, and less debate in fixing their land they want to lease, don't you think?  


PORT'S IMAGE AS A SLUM LORD IS APPARENT IN THE CASE OF PLATYPUS

As the Port scrambles to fashion out a new lease which may have some of the same elements in the sale agreement with West Port Marine way back in 2008. The Port's image of a slum lord in regards to Platypus property as become quite evident as shown in the pictures that Platypus President, Judson Linnabary shared with the Port Commission on Monday. Since the Port seemed reluctant to even to entertain the notion of a all out sales agreement, which West Port Marine was fortunate to get. The Port once again will offer Linnabury yet another lease that may have the same elements as West Port got. In essence readers the Port still wants to play the part of the land lord in this. If that's the case, then the property they are leasing to the business is their problem to fix, which also makes them in this case a slum lord. I can see the marketing department at work here readers, "Come see our slums for rent!" The Port should be embarrassed by what been going on down there. Really readers, Platypus not only has to deal with storm water drainage issues, they also get the back wash from their neighbor...West Port Marine. Is it any wonder why Linnabary is fed up with the land lord which is the Port? I intend to take a trip down there and check it out first hand...so stay tune. Can't wait to see the porta potty the employees use for a restroom...ADA would just love to see this! So, readers the Port's Image of a slum lord is apparent...They have six months to fix it.
Platypus presents Port of Port Angeles commissioners with ultimatum---PDN

Quote from the article reflecting what the Port Said during the work session on which I attended: "Commissioners agreed to work quickly to address his grievances, beginning with exploring ways a lease could be written to protect both Platypus and the port.I don't want you go anywhere, especially when it's something we can fix,  said Burke.

So, readers the question remains, will the lost of 60 jobs be worth the five archers of property that Linnabary wants to buy outright and develop on his own as West Port done? Or will the Port be left holding the image of leasing out a mud pit?


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DAILY DEVOTIONAL
let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
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