1.   An agreement was also reached giving French ships unrestricted access to Chinese ports.

2.   Chinese ports are dogged by poor efficiency and mind-boggling bureaucracy.

3.   Cushing concludes the Treaty of Wanghia, granting American merchants extra-territorial rights in five Chinese ports.

4.   Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, a German doctor based in Seoul, wants to load North Koreans onto a boat in a Chinese port and set sail for South Korea.

5.   HIT, which has invested in a line-up of nearby Chinese ports, wants the decision on when to build the new berths delayed by a year.

6.   Mukundan said more pirated ships seem to be docking in Chinese ports, though he did not know exactly how many.

7.   Xiamen was one of two Chinese ports chosen by the government to handle direct shipping, originally slated to start this month.

8.   Xiamen was one of two Chinese ports allowed to operate the service, originally slated to start this month.

9.   Quigley said there were no U.S. ship visits to Chinese ports scheduled for May.

10.   An explosion on a wooden boat loaded with barrels of oil and docked in a southern Chinese port has killed nine people on board.