As maritime container transport grows, transport between European seaports and their hinterland is increasingly becoming a bottleneck, with the low rail share of freight leading to excessive demands on the capacity of the road network. Furthermore, increased demand for storage of containers at terminals will become a problem due to limitations of space. The main problems which require addressing are the reliability of rail transport in terms of transport times and guarantees, its cost (particularly for volumes of less than a trainload), the cost of road-rail trans-shipment in hinterland terminals (including terminal costs and shunting efforts), the effort required to build up intermodal transport chains and missing EDI connections between all actors.