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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: relaxed shipping restrictions for China
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>>Wednesday  April 2  1997
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>>Americans relax docking restrictions on mainland vessels 
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>>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.
>>
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