Abstract

  The article considers the basic problems of modern development of Russian ports in the Black sea-Azov sea basin, there are substantiated directions and ways of increasing the effectiveness of their work in the conditions of active development of the Sea main routes of International transport corridor TRACECA. As an important factor of modernization of existing and construction of new port capacities of Russia in the Black sea-Azov sea it is marked an index of predictability of dynamics of growth of the domestic economy and the prospects for the further increase of transit of hydrocarbon stock from minefields of the Caspian sea and the Caspian sea countries through the North Caucasus and South regions.

Keywords: Black sea-Azov sea basin, Russian ports, modernization, capacity, competitiveness