PLO, Polish Oceanic Lines. The treasure that was stolen. With typically Bolshevik rage and greed and haste.
I stopped working for this shipowner in 1986, and then it was a planet power. In fact, if I remember correctly, 174 ships. mostly young and modern. large place to work.
When I returned from the United States (cruise liner – Caribbean and Alaska) in 1990, I was crushed by the shocking news: - PLO at the time was only 4 ships... How is that possible?! How could you destruct specified a golden chicken? What happened?
Sea transport is 80% of the world's trade.
We have access to the sea. 3 magnificent and modern ports – Gdynia, Gdańsk and Szczecin (with Świnoujście) are solid bases. And a fewer smaller ones could be built rapidly too.
When I mentioned it, in the late 1990s, PLO owned a immense shipping network with over 170 ships.
At the time, a close competitor, the Danish Maersk Line had only a few, possibly even a dozen, ships. No competitor. for Poland, not only with line PLO, but besides with tramping PGM and ferry company.
Today, Polish Oceanic Lines are a barely breathing dwarf. And Maersk Line?
... The largest unit [...] in terms of income and employees (approximately 22,000 employees) is Maersk Line. The world-wide liner service Maersk has over 550 ships of 2.2 million ]]>TEU]]>. It is now the largest shipping operator in the world. [1]
What large would our Polish, Gdynia shipowner be present if the looters, fools and thieves did not destruct the wonderful merchant navy, which, with the construction of Gdynia, our grandfathers had already begun to make before WWII?
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Polish Oceanic Lines are a linear shipowner (PJM is simply a tramp), where the areas of the planet that operated the lines were managed by 4 plants:
Department of American Lines
Department of Asian and Australian Lines
Department of African and Mediterranean Lines
Department of European Lines and West Africa
The first 2 plants were located in separate locations in Gdynia. 3rd in Gdańsk and European in Szczecin. Additionally, there was the PLO office – a large pre-war building, in the city centre, on 10 February.
Today, all these properties (maybe almost all of them... I don't know exactly) have already been sold to "the rabbit's friends".
Was that the biggest theft of the circular Table? How are the colonels and generals? And the remainder of the smart guys.
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In the late 1970s, I mutilated to the South, a large 10 thousand. M/s Paweł Szwydkoj [2]. It was a large modern moneymaker. According to our plan and built in Szczecin Shipyard. Not as standard for those times, but as it was called – multiplex. He did not have average hold and cranes, but besides tanks, for various liquids: edible oils, juices, wine, or even chemistry; he besides had a cold store loader, and yet – I do not remember precisely – 8, or 12 passenger cabins. This made the superstructure, especially the hotel and manned part, wonderfully finished furniture, by the no longer existing Ship Furniture mill in Malbork.
Oh, I forgot: - The South is our common word for the American line, south of the Panama Canal "down", which is mainly and regularly Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. And frequently the western coast – (Peru and Chile).
Now, after long years, I appreciate the value of tourism and of course the anticipation of swimming in that part of the globe. Despite this, I value swimming in East Africa most – from Egypt, with large stops in Kenya and Tanzania, and in the south to Mozambique, and to the gorgeous Madagascar.
The South Coaster's gone crazy. I'll skip Colombia and Venezuela, which were in full bloom half a century ago. The impression for life, very affirmative and exciting, is Brazil Uruguay and Argentina.
Brazil has revealed itself as something wonderful. A happy and cheerful country of tourists and wonderful people. large food, of course. And Rio de Janeiro is 1 of the most beautiful cities in the planet forever.
Uruguay, with its capital Montevideo, is simply a sad memory. From the sea, as we stood on anchors waiting for our turn to take place in the harbor, the city looked wonderful and dignified. Almost like fresh York. Slender skyscrapers shot at the sky.
After we started loading at the kei in the port, and I finished my job, I went wandering around the city. Sad. Everywhere gray, sad and dirty and grim. And it's very empty, like this town is already dead.
The scenery I saw is to show me how it passes with time of the erstwhile greatness. erstwhile Uruguay was a rich, happy country, where it was cooked from trade, finance and success. Why couldn't it be maintained? Is everything always falling? I didn't know then.
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And finally, Argentina...
Our southernmost road. 2 ports – Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata.
It is simply a very different planet than the close neighbors – Uruguay and Paraguay. And what's crucial – it's not a tropical pan anymore, it's a climate more or little Italian.
Buenos Aires delighted me. Especially the center and in the mediate of the square with the celebrated toothpick. A stone obelisk, like the ones ancient Rome stole in Africa. unchangeable and well-maintained buildings. Not American skyscrapers, just 10 stories. Many beautiful churches, museums and another cultural objects. And besides exquisite restaurants where, in plain view, hell is on open fire, spread on long, nearly two-metre-long, grilled national asado swords ["Asado is simply a method and social event consisting of organizing or participating in a barbecue in various countries of South America: especially Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, where it is besides a conventional event" ]
Argentina is simply a planet leader in beef. The climate and nature there are specified that large herds of cattle, all day and night feed on large, vast pampas. The Argentine pampa is the world's largest rich steppe – about 700 1000 square kilometers,
There, Argentina felt a different culture than Brazil or Uruguay. More European. We're a lot closer.
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These beautiful and sentimental memories brought me a program, or a channel for YT - #Poles in Latin America. More specifically, an interview with the recently settled in beautiful green Mendoza – a city almost in the shadow of Aconcagui, the highest highest (6961 m) in the Andes, as well as in the world, if you exclude the Himalayas.
It was then that this conversation of 2 Polish expatriates made me realize – and this is unquestionable – Argentina is the safest place in the world.
Argentina is simply a country that knows no war. In a period of 100 years, the only armed conflict in which life was lost to respective 100 young soldiers who are worshiped as national heroes is the conflict with Britain in 1982 over Falkland Islands, or as Argentina calls it – Malwiny.
He does not know terrorist attacks, he does not know about continuous strikes and constant street riots – that is, the day of everyday Europeans.
In addition, a lot has been changing lately, and most importantly, according to the people, only for the better. This happened erstwhile a young angered and, what is uncommon in politics, a decent man, Javier Milei, came to power. And I think the most crucial thing that convinces the Argentines to him, in specified mass support that the opposed legislature president, does not dare argue his reforms, is that he does not talk, does not promise (a'la Tusk) only does. Now. The main nonsubjective is to blow up this nasty peronism, advocacy for bureaucracy, corruption and oligarchy.
Javier Milei (about whom I wrote a column recently) fascinated me erstwhile I think it was the first time at the Davos convention that he razed that crazy old man, Klaus Schwab and his phanatized Jew, Yuwal Noah Harari (48 years old, considered to be a prophet – authentically!), what he thinks of them, unfortunately already implemented, and we feel painfully, projects of planet conversion, where executioners and capos will of course be Germans.
The president of Argentina's speech in Davos was possibly the first so harsh criticism and opposition, in a public forum gathering the most crucial and richest people in the world, for possibly 100 years.
So now I see that it wasn't a classic, political part of crap that worked only with his mouth, but immediately after his swearing in, he started fixing his country. And he's introduced panic among bureaucrats, shrewds, gizzards, and combinators. What is the phenomenon – I thought there were no specified people in the planet anymore.
A young Pole, I suppose, medium-income financier working in the bitcoin zone, wife with roots from Latin America plus 2 children, left Poland 2 years ago erstwhile the war in Ukraine warmed up for good, and the European Union began to introduce its destructive citizens idiotism.
They lived in Paraguay for over a year, where they found that surviving in a furnace, where only at night can be lived, and in filth and stench, is unbearable for a European.
So they fled to Argentina. And it's like they're in paradise. [3]
He told specified things that for us Poles, it was a fairy tale or science-fiction.
How can there be a country where wellness care is free for everyone? (A tiny exception, as you already have other, your private insurance, is that state care does not include you).
Where in the center of a good territory you will rent a 100 metre flat for a 1000 zlotys. besides guarded, behind the gate parking lot by the door.
Where services are so cheap. Hairdresser is PLN 12. Just like women say, nails.
Where schools supply peculiar care for fresh students to avoid stress.
Where everyone is kind to each other, smiling and serving
Where bread in the nearest store costs 2 PLN (but already in the German supermarket 4 PLN). And a bottle of inexpensive but good wine is besides 4 PLN (a Coca Cola, 1.5 liters, 8 PLN)
I could trade as long as there is, at the end of the world. And it's credible to me due to the fact that I was there and I felt the atmosphere. Even erstwhile it was Peron's era.
And if you want to hear even more about the values of Argentina, even for a Pole with the top imagination.
I was distracted by this interview. Not only did he origin nostalgic memories of the world's journey. He touched me due to the fact that I thought that everything on Earth is not lost yet. That sweaty and sticky hands of communism did not scope everywhere. That there's a Argentina where it's average and decent. How many more places in the world? How about Australia? Although China works there with a double effort to master, or only to enslave this country – the continent.
Will we, Poland, always again become the Republic of Poland? Not the kind they like to shout at those mediocre people, which can only be 'God, honor, homeland', and besides, they can't do anything.
I'm besides old... But it's good to know there's a place like Mendoza. And the remainder of Argentina.
[1] ]]>https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.P._Møller-Mærsk]]>
[2] ]]>https://www.plo.com.pl/index.php?language=pl§ion=0&subsection=0&item=432&title=Pawel_Swidkoj&code=ship&page=0]]>[3] ]]>https://youtu.be/kQnsgvGmvC8?si=D3COkTs3OBXs5acM]]>
[You Tube #Poland on Javier Milei's Age... @Polacy in Latin America]
{12 Apr 2024 Stephen Bentyn and his household moved to Paraguay, where he lived for a year, then moved to Argentina. In an interview with "Poles in Latin America" he talks about climate in both countries, surviving conditions, prices of services and products, and rent of apartments. Where is it easier to enroll a kid in school? Paraguay or Argentina? Where is it easier to rent an apartment? Javier Milei - the savior or the destroyer? A freeman or a supervisor? How does Milei change Argentina? Is he gonna make it? ♪ I'll be there ♪
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