PORT ANGELES — The company that wants to build a shipbuilding facility on the waterfront should be given another look, according to Lynn Mattix, the consultant who introduced the company to Port commissioners last week.
Mattix said Friday that Port and Daishowa America officials should try harder to work out an agreement to bring Santa Maria Shipping LLC to Port Angeles.But the Port of Port Angeles’ executive director, Clyde Boddy, said he didn’t think anything further can be done, although the Port is negotiating to buy the land in which Santa Maria is interested.But those talks are apparently months away from a conclusion.
“It’s unfortunate,” Boddy said. “We tried to look at all the opportunities, but there was nothing we had available, certainly within their time frames.
“We tried to see what we could do. We just didn’t have any property that the Port (now) controls.”
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