Time: Wed Apr 09 05:13:00 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA01236; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 05:08:32 -0700 (MST) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id FAA05179; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 05:08:28 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 05:11:23 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: relaxed shipping restrictions for China Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >> >>Wednesday April 2 1997 >> >>Americans relax docking restrictions on mainland vessels >> >>ASSOCIATED PRESS in Washington >>For the first time since the 1950s, Chinese ships can dock near US >military installations with just a day's notice. >> >>In one of three deals in the past year helping Beijing's main shipping >company, the United States quietly agreed to end the requirement that >Chinese ships provide four days' notification when entering one of a dozen >sensitive ports. >> >>In exchange, China agreed to provide new business opportunities it had >first promised American shippers in 1993 but had not yet delivered. >Officials say implementation of that offer is progressing slowly. >> >>The primary Chinese beneficiary of the new deal is the China Ocean >Shipping Company (Cosco), the state-run shipping company which took part in >the negotiations. >> >>"The Chinese clearly signalled to us that they wanted one-day access to >the ports and we said we wanted the American companies to do container >services in China," said the US Maritime Administration's Bruce Carlton, a >member of the US negotiating team. >> >>The deal, long sought by China, has both economic and symbolic benefits. >Cosco can now guarantee with more certainty when its clients' shipments >will arrive and its vessels have the same status as those from other >"friendly" countries. >> >>Cosco ships have been involved in several recent controversies. One ran >into a crowded boardwalk in New Orleans last year and another was >unwittingly used by gun smugglers to transport 2,000 sub-machineguns into >northern California. >> >>The four-day restriction on entry to a dozen military-sensitive ports had >been imposed in the 1950s. >> >>Copyright ©1997 South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd. >>All Rights Reserved. >> >> > > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew, Mitchell, B.A., M.S. : Counselor at Law, federal witness email: [address in tool bar] : Eudora Pro 3.0.1 on Intel 586 CPU web site: http://www.supremelaw.com : library & law school registration ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this ========================================================================
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