The shipping and shipbuilding sides of China's HNA Group are being swallowed up by its technology division after the acquisition of US-based Ingram Micro.

On its corporate website, the increasingly acquisitive HNA, parent of Hainan Airline, as of today groups its technology division and HNA Logistics together in a presentation of corporate structure.

Chinese investigative business news organisation Caixin cites an unidentified knowledgeable source as saying the underlying reason is a merger of technology and logistics into a unit that will own Ingram Micro as well as the company's logistics enterprises.

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