TOKYO -- The freighter M.V. Liu Lin Hai eased into the Port of Seattle on a crisp, cloudy day in April 1979 as a cluster of politicians, diplomats and officials watched from shore. The ship, sailed by the fledgling China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), was the first Chinese merchant vessel to call in the U.S. in 30 years.
COSCO, China's largest shipping group and a force in transportation to the U.S., finds itself in the crosshairs of planned American port fees. © AP
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