You can find kickbacks everywhere, but in some industries it's so deeply embedded in the culture that it's nearly impossible to find any alternatives. The comm

You can find kickbacks everywhere, but in some industries it's so deeply embedded in the culture that it's nearly impossible to find any alternatives. The common theme is that there is usually a bottleneck, monopoly, gatekeeper, or government-mandated middleman. This is what enables the kickback scheme to work without the threat of clean alternatives competing with it. Ports are ripe for corruption and kickbacks because there aren't many of them. If you want to get your cargo in or out, you have to go through a nearby port. Trucking the freight to a different port is more expensive than any bribes/kickbacks/corruption (by design) so people just settle and pay it.