Thank you, Syriacus for posting current port information.
There it is in black and white, with facts, photos, and you have even posted links to their websites.
Shocking. /sarcasm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1583408/posts?page=28#28
The above post I found fascinating. Thanks for the ping BTW.
Many thanks for the ping! :-)
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China Shipping website mentions:
On Dock Rail: On May 1, 2001, China Shipping North America and its vendor partners at Marine Terminal Corporation and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway inaugurated on-dock rail service for twice weekly trains from Los Angeles to Chicago, IL and beyond (including dedicated steel wheels interchange to the Ohio Valley, New York, Boston and Baltimore).
You're welcome bd476. Here's an oldie.
COSCO And China's Military May Get US Military Base [excerpted]
T he Chinese Ocean Shipping Co.'s bid to operate from the Long Beach Naval Station foundered amid controversy, but the City of Angels now is eager to make a similar deal.etcThey're back. The China Ocean Shipping Co., or COSCO, the merchant marine for the People's Liberation Army, or PLA, has returned with a vengeance. It didn't set well with COSCO when it lost out on the former U.S. Navy base in Long Beach, Calif., last year because an alerted Congress tucked legislation into an appropriations bill prohibiting such a takeover. [snip]
President Clinton has no plans to thwart this Communist China priority. In fact, the Clinton administration has done just the opposite. At the very time the Justice Department launched its biggest espionage case since the Rosenbergs, concerning allegations that nuclear secrets were stolen by Beijing from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Clinton was paving the way for COSCO to take over the port at Long Beach.
n 1997, the New York Times raised questions concerning why a "Clinton-administration official made what several people involved describe as highly unusual telephone calls to push for construction of a container terminal that would be leased to a shipping company owned by the Chinese government."
. . . . But why would Clinton have a personal interest in COSCO?