ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with how actors in ports and in port-related transport chains (hinterland chains) try to enhance coordination in order to make the container transport from and to the port more efficient. It introduces the actor's active in port-related transport chains. The chapter examines which coordination problems occur among them, and why. It discusses why efficient hinterland chains are important from a port perspective and gives a general typology how actors could improve coordination in hinterland chains, and how these arrangements are rooted in theory. Coordination problems arise as sufficient coordination between the different parts of the chain often does not emerge 'spontaneously'. A major coordination problem between the railway company and the deep-sea terminal operator is peak times at the terminals, and a low punctuality of arriving and departing trains.
