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China port integration faces renewed monopoly concerns after appeals to authorities

By MLex Staff ( December 9, 2025, 08:13 GMT | Insight) -- China’s provincial port-integration program is again under scrutiny after a logistics-industry association escalated long-running concerns to both the State Council and the Communist Party’s central inspection authorities, highlighting what the group describes as entrenched regional market power and rising logistics costs following years of consolidation. Although Cai Yuanyou, chair of the Xiamen Modern Logistics Industry Association, has endorsed provincial port integration for the efficiency gains it has delivered, he said gaps in post-integration oversight have enabled market power to be exercised in ways that raise new competition concerns.China’s provincial port-integration program is again under scrutiny after a logistics-industry association escalated long-running concerns to both the State Council and the Communist Party’s central inspection authorities, highlighting what the group describes as entrenched regional market power and rising logistics costs following years of consolidation....

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