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Annotation: The growing dependence on cross-border multimodal transport corridors has exacerbated coordination difficulties between seaports and dry ports, particularly in contexts characterized by deep-seated institutional fragmentation and insufficient physical connectivity. The available literature on port-hinterland integration and smart ports focuses more on infrastructure investment along with technology adoption, but not on the organizational and governance processes through which coordination within international borders can be facilitated. The research fills the gap of this phenomenon by looking at Virtual Port Coordination (VPC) as a form of cross-border governance that enables functionality integration within SeaportDry Port. Based on a qualitative case study of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Seaport, and the Tashkent Dry Port on the Maritime Silk Road Framework, the research uses process tracing to explain how the causal mechanisms of VPC work. The empirical data were collected using 32 semistructured interviews that were complemented with policy documents, operation logs and archive files.