Abstract Explicit expressions for the transport coefficients in a classical dense gas in terms of the intermolecular forces are derived by a systematic evaluation in powers of the density of general formulae for transport coefficients in terms of time correlation functions. The evaluation can be reduced to the computation of the very long time behaviour of certain time correlation functions in a dense gas in equilibrium. This can be accomplished by similar methods as are used in the theory of transport coefficients in dense gases from non-equilibrium distribution functions. In this paper the general expressions for the viscosity and heatconductivity are calculated to lowest and first order in the density, and the results are shown to be equivalent with the results of Chapman and Enskog, and of Choh and Uhlenbeck respectively.