5. Conclusion. The diversity of inter-port cooperations and their territorial trajectories

The analysis of institutional cooperation between ports (sea and river) highlights the importance of a hitherto little-addressed issue. It sheds original light on the structuring of North-Western European hinterlands, where the political and institutional dimension of the links is perhaps more apparent than operational imperatives, a phenomenon that has received little attention in the analysis of the integration of logistics chains in the structuring of hinterlands